NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight early Wednesday with three test dummies aboard, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the Apollo program ended 50 years ago.
NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program.
“It was pretty overwhelming,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “We’re going out to explore the heavens, and this is the next step.” NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Wednesday morning, Nov. 16, 2022, as seen from Harbor town Marina on Merritt Island, Fla. The moon is visible in the sky.
“The rocket, it’s alive. It’s creaking. It’s making venting noises. It’s pretty scary,” said Trent Annis, one of the three men who entered the blast danger zone to fix Tuesday night’s leak. “My heart was pumping. My nerves were going. But yeah, we showed up today.” “There’s definitely relief that we’re underway,” mission manager Mike Sarafin told reporters. But he added: “I personally am not going to rest well until we get safely to splashdown and recovery.”
NASA has hired Elon Musk’s SpaceX to develop Starship, the 21st-century answer to Apollo’s lunar lander. Starship will carry astronauts back and forth between Orion and the lunar surface, at least on the first trip in 2025. The plan is to station Starship and eventually other companies’ landers in orbit around the moon, ready for use whenever new Orion crews pull up.
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