NASA, the American space agency, is today testing the Artemis-1 mission to send a human to the Moon. The mission is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, at 8:33 local time, which translates to 6:03 pm Indian time.
The spacecraft will travel through space for 42 days, reaching distances of up to 60,000 kilometres beyond the Moon before returning to Earth with a programmed splashdown. Instead of humans, the spaceship is carrying three test subjects who will simulate passengers to study the effects of radiation, stress, and vibrations in space.
Artemis is NASA's mission to land humans on the Moon for the first time since 1972. To achieve this, they have developed a new spacecraft and a new rocket to carry it into space. SLS (Space Launch System) is a structure that launches a rocket into space. It is designed to send a spacecraft beyond Earth. SLS is the most powerful rocket after Saturn V.