The road to launching Artemis 1 has been long, and there is still so much work to be done to send astronauts back to the moon ⬇️
Also joining the Artemis 1 crew is everybody's favorite stop-motion sheep, Shaun. The clever Shropshire lamb — in plush doll form — will fly aboard the Orion spacecraft to the moon thanks to an arrangement by the European Space Agency which built the power-providing service module for the mission. "This is an exciting time for Shaun and for us at ESA," David Parker, director for human and robotic exploration at ESA,released on Aug 2.
Artemis timelines have also moved around; President Trump targeted 2024 for the program's first crewed lunar landing, for example. On top of the politics came the coronavirus pandemic, which certainly didn't help. But Berthe said the pandemic didn't have as big an impact as he had feared."It was difficult for people to cross international borders," he said, noting that complication"somewhat slowed us down.
There have also been plenty of Artemis naysayers — those who argue that sending humans back to the moon is a waste of time, money and resources. We've already done it, such people say, so why go back, especially since humanity has already sent an armada of robotic spacecraft to both scan the moon from orbit and drive across the lunar surface? "An astronaut will do in a six-hour [moonwalk] what a robot can do in six months," he said.
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