🛰️ Mission
Artemis I
An empty crew ship, sent round the Moon to prove it works.
- Launched
- 16 November 2022, 3 years ago
- Worked for
- 25 days, until 11 December 2022
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- Splashed down in the Pacific after 25 days and 2.2 million km
- Best known for
- The first flight of the ship meant to take people back to the Moon, flown empty on purpose to test the heat shield
Did you know?
- Coming home it hit the air at 40,000 km/h and its heat shield reached about 2,800 °C.
- It went 64,000 km beyond the Moon — further from Earth than any ship built for people has ever been.
Where it went
The Moon
Earth’s only natural moon, and the only other world people have walked on.
Earth
Our home, the only world known to have life.
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Hubble Space Telescope
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James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.