Rozpoczęła się dziesiąta z kolei załogowa wyprawa księżycowa NASA. Poprzednia odbyła się prawie 54 lata temu
Start Artemis II nastąpił 53 l 03m 13d od wodowania Apollo 17.
Dokładniejsze dane:
Wodowanie Apollo 17: 19.12.1972 o 19:24:59 UTC i był to 43. załogowy lot kosmiczny.
Start Artemis II: 01.04.2026 o 22:35:12 UTC i jest to 360. załogowy lot kosmiczny.
Z 24. ludzi, którzy odbyli loty w kierunku Księżyca, żyje obecnie 5., w tym czterech, którzy spacerowali po nim.
26 David Randolph Scott Apollo 9, Apollo 15 06.06.1932
30 Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 20.01.1930
47 Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Apollo 13 14.11.1933
57 Charles Moss Duke, Jr. Apollo 16 03.10.1935
59 Harrison Hagan 'Jack' Schmitt Apollo 17 03.07.1935
Już niedługo zaktualizowane statystyki powinny wyglądać następująco:
Z 28. ludzi, którzy odbyli loty w kierunku Księżyca, żyje obecnie 9., w tym czterech, którzy spacerowali po nim.
535
Gregory Reid Wiseman Artemis II 11.11.1975
559
Christina Hammock Koch Artemis II 29.01.1979
565
Victor Jerome 'IKE' Glover, Jr. Artemis II 30.04.1976
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Jeremy Roger Hansen Artemis II 27.01.1976 Kanada
Apollo's impatient old-timers are rooting for NASA's return to the moon with Artemis II launch
Marcia Dunn Monday 30 March 2026 13:02 BST
The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back. They just wish these Artemis moonshots had happened sooner while more of Apollo’s workforce was still alive.
Now in their 80s and 90s, the dwindling survivors of NASA’s greatest generation would also like to see more enthusiasm for Artemis.
So few of them are left from the original 400,000 that no reunion is planned to celebrate the upcoming Artemis II flight around the moon by four astronauts as soon as April 1. (...)
Apollo 16’s Charlie Duke points out that half the world’s population was not yet born when he walked on the moon in 1972. (...)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nasa-jared-isaacman-cape-canaveral-richard-nixon-christina-koch-b2948355.html------------------------------------------------------
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Artemis II Preflight (NHQ202604010301) (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55180478562/in/album-72177720331487648Artemis II Walkout (NHQ202604010004)From right to left, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist are seen as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to board their Orion spacecraft atop NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at Launch Complex 39B, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
(NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55182159551/in/album-72177720331487648Artemis II Walkout (NHQ202604010007)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55182327878/in/album-72177720331487648Artemis II Walkout (NHQ202604010023)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55181276172/in/album-72177720331487648