How to watch live the Artemis rocket launch to return to the moon

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Today begins mankind’s return to the Moon with manned missions thanks to the Artemis program, whose first launch (for the moment still unmanned) will take place at 14:33 (Spanish peninsular time) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Artemis program marks the return of manned missions to the Moon and the arrival of the first woman on the moon

A historic launch that can be followed live on the nASA television channel as well as through its website and its various social media profiles. You can also watch the live broadcast here:

With the Artemis program (after Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt and twin sister of Apollo, god of Hellenic mythology who served to baptize NASA’s manned missions to the Moon in the 1960s and 1970s), half a century of human absence on the Moon will conclude with a manned return in which a woman is expected to arrive for the first time to our natural satellite.

The SLS rocket will propel the Orion capsule to lunar orbit, where it will spend six days after which it will return to Earth, serving as a first rehearsal for upcoming missionsthe next mission, however, will not land on the Moon, but will serve as a second full test for the first time since the 1970s to orbit the Moon with a human crew. The next mission, however, will not land on the Moon either, but will serve as a second complete rehearsal and, after orbiting the Moon with a human crew for the first time since the 1970s, will initiate the historic return of humans to the lunar surface.

To achieve this, it will be necessary to rely on the Gateway lunar orbiterwhere I will be in the lunar lander and lunar return module, a module that will be launched soon to be stationed in lunar orbit awaiting manned missions.

The launch depends, among other things, on the optimum circumstances for it and these must occur within the so-called launch windows, the best times in the respective orbits and relative positions of the Earth and Moon.

Today, Monday, August 29, one of these launch windows takes place. If there are any last minute problems, the launch of the SLS rocket with the Orion capsule will be postponed until the next launch window, scheduled for September 2-5.

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