NASA’s Cautious Approach To Human Lunar Return
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Credit: Orion concept: ESA
NASA has decided to ease humans back to the Moon in a free-return flyaround trajectory on the first flight of the Orion crew capsule with astronauts on board, instead of going directly to the lunar orbit where it plans to test hardware for human missions to Mars. Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), now...
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