“NASA’s Artemis II: The Reasons for Not Landing Humans on the Moon”

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Mission Artemis II from the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) did not land humans on Moon, but only orbits it. The reason is that NASA has not yet tested a series of technologies, systems and procedures to support the landing.

Through the Artemis Program, NASA will send humans to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years after the Apollo missions. In the long term, this program will put humans on Mars.

To make this happen, several stages of the program were carried out. Artemis I’s mission, using a crew of mannequins, was completed successfully.

The Artemis II mission carries a crew of four humansthat is NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch; and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They are planned to be launched into lunar orbit in November 2024.

With a round trip of around four days, the mission is expected to last just over 10 days.

Orion doesn’t need propulsion to return to Earth. The craft uses a fuel-efficient trajectory that takes advantage of the Earth-Moon’s gravitational field to make it circle around the far side of the Moon.

The team will be pulled back naturally by Earth’s gravity to return to Earth.

A number of technologies used in the Artemis mission are said to have not been tested directly in a real environment. NASA also needs data to support travel plans to the Moon and Mars in the future launched in the Artemis program.

The Artemis II mission did not land on the Moon because a number of supporting technologies had not been tested by NASA. Only then will NASA’s Artemis III Mission land humans on the Moon.

Here are some things that were tested in orbit this Moon:

Life support

In terms of travel, Artemis II will be similar to Artemis I; test flights using the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft.

The difference is that Artemis II has a real crew on board who will help test human-centric systems, such as life support, communications and flight control systems.

“Artemis II’s unique mission profile will build on the unmanned Artemis I flight trials by demonstrating the SLS and Orion capabilities required in deep space missions,” said Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager from NASA. Space.

“This mission will prove that Orion’s critical life support systems are ready to sustain our astronauts on future longer duration missions and allow the crew to practice the operations critical to the success of Artemis III,” he added.

The radiation levels of the space environment around the Moon are much stronger than those found in low Earth orbit where the International Space Station (ISS) is located.

Therefore, NASA needs to gather data about Orion’s ability to keep the astronauts safe and healthy during the mission.

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