A look at NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Johnny Kim and Randy Bresnik on the Orion spacecraft simulator that recently arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA
NASA Take a look at the Orion spacecraft simulators that astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Johnny Kim and Randy Bresnick recently arrived at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The simulator provides astronauts, engineers and flight controllers with the ability to train and study for scenarios during the Artemis mission to the moon. The interior of the simulator is being designed with Orion’s display and control system and crew seat, to simulate what an astronaut will experience when approaching the moon and returning to Earth.
Kim and Wilson are among 18 astronauts recently named to the Artemis team of astronauts eligible to be selected for the Artemis mission to the moon. Bresnik is currently the assistant to the chief of the astronaut’s office for research. Targeting 2023 for the first mission Artemis II with a NASA crew, the Orion Spacecraft Agency’s space launch system is set to bring the rocket to the top. The mission will send astronauts around the moon and bring them back to Earth, a flight that will land on the moon in 2024 for the first woman and the next man.
During Artemis I, Orion will venture thousands of miles away from the moon during a mission of about three weeks. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is designed to carry humans further than ever before. Orion will serve as a research vehicle that will take the crew into space, provide the ability to perform an emergency abortion, sustain the crew during space travel, and provide safe re-entry with space-deep space return speeds. Orion will launch NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System.
