Launching the world's most powerful rocket is just the beginning.
On Monday , NASA is set to launch the most powerful rocket ever built on a roughly 40-day trip around the moon and back.
However, every journey of a thousand light-years begins with a single step — and Monday's premiere launch of the Space Launch System rocket will be totally un-crewed, with only three mannequins riding aboard the Orion Crew Capsule perched atop the rocket's tip. For the purposes of this mission, those astronauts will be played by three mannequins — or"moonikins" — riding inside the Orion capsule.
All three mannequins will sit on chairs rigged with sensors to measure the acceleration and vibrations during the spacecraft's launch and reentry to Earth. By studying the moonikins and their sensor data after the mission concludes, NASA should get a clear picture of the potential bodily strain and radiation exposure that human astronauts can expect to endure during future phases of the Artemis program.
"That's always a nail-biter, because you have these large moving bodies and they have to come up and separate and clear," Troutman said. While numerous NASA launches have successfully completed this procedure,ut"it's still a tricky maneuver to do." "Orion's going to come screaming down at 11 kilometers a second [6.8 miles per second]," Troutman said."This is where we'll test Orion's heat shield, which is one of our big objectives for the mission."—Female firsts: 7 women who broke barriers in science and techFinally, the capsule will deploy parachutes and splash down into the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico.
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