Video (german): Return to the moon - Artemis and Germany's participation
After Apollo comes Artemis, as NASA – 50 years after the last Moon landing – initiates the return to the Moon on 29 August 2022 at 08:33 local time (14:33 CEST) with its new 98-metre-high Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral (Florida). The Orion spacecraft, whose service and propulsion module is the European Service Module (ESM), mainly built in Germany, is to orbit the Moon several times. Germany has a 50 percent share in the service modules, which are being manufactured by a European industrial consortium under the lead management of Airbus, ESA's main contractor, and finally assembled in Bremen. Accordingly, the first ESM will be named after the Hanseatic city: 'Bremen'. The German Space Agency at DLR, based in Bonn, manages the German ESA contributions on behalf of the Federal Government.
Video (german): Return to the moon - Artemis and Germany's participation
Video (german): Return to the moon - Artemis and Germany's participation
After Apollo comes Artemis, as NASA – 50 years after the last Moon landing – initiates the return to the Moon on 29 August 2022 at 08:33 local time (14:33 CEST) with its new 98-metre-high Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral (Florida). The Orion spacecraft, whose service and propulsion module is the European Service Module (ESM), mainly built in Germany, is to orbit the Moon several times. Germany has a 50 percent share in the service modules, which are being manufactured by a European industrial consortium under the lead management of Airbus, ESA's main contractor, and finally assembled in Bremen. Accordingly, the first ESM will be named after the Hanseatic city: 'Bremen'. The German Space Agency at DLR, based in Bonn, manages the German ESA contributions on behalf of the Federal Government.
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