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2022.11.16 | Artemis I Launch Redux – Apollo 4 Launch Retrospective


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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 16 November 2022:

Liftoff! NASA’s Artemis 1 Mega Rocket Launches Orion to the Moon:

* Following a successful launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the agency’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Carrying an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, SLS lifted off for its flight test debut at 5:47 p.m. AEDT on Wednesday, 16 November from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  

* The European Space Agency contributions to the Artemis program

55 Years Ago: Apollo 4, the First Flight of the Saturn V

Lunar Flashlight: Roughly the size of a briefcase, Lunar Flashlight is a very small satellite being developed and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will use near-infrared lasers and an onboard spectrometer to map ice in permanently shadowed regions near the Moon's south pole. 

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The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia