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Close ✕Orion (Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle)
The crew vehicle for Artemis. A pressurised crew module 5.03 m in diameter carries up to four astronauts on deep-space missions, mated to the European Service Module built by Airbus and…
No recorded place · 2006–present
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- is qualified of Artemis I — The flight proved Orion's translunar navigation and lunar-return re-entry, and exposed the heat shield char-loss problem that shaped the Artemis II entry profile.
- is first crewed flight of of Artemis II — Artemis II carried the first crew aboard Orion and the first humans beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
- contrasts with Apollo Lunar Module — Apollo carried its lander with it on one rocket; Artemis launches crew and lander separately and mates them in space, which is what frees the programme from Apollo's equatorial landing constraint — and what makes lander readiness the schedule driver.
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