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Transcript/ScriptTHE WEEK IN SPACE -- {1Dec2022}
HEADLINE: NASA's $4B Warmup Lap Around the Moon
TEASER: Artemis launch a success, Orion capsule doing better than expected
PUBLISHED AT: 12/1/2022 at 1:44p
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ NASA/ GEORGIA TECH
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((INTRO)) [[ NASA’s uber-expensive test dummy moon mission exceeds expectations. Plus, a lunar flashlight’s frosty mission, and a state visit to NASA headquarters. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.]]
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We begin this week in the cold of space, where NASA’s Orion capsule caught a selfie photobombed by the moon and Earth.
[RADIO TRACK: NASA Flight Director Zebulon Scoville speaking at an agency briefing as provided by the Associated Press.]
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“The flight control team is enjoying themselves while they’re learning about the vehicle. We’re taking it out, really testing it to its limits and trying to understand how it performs… This is a ship that’s going to take humans to explore the solar system and cislunar space, and we’re just thrilled to be a part of it.”
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The briefing follows Orion’s orbit of the moon this week in which it traveled nearly 450-thousand kilometers from Earth on a four-billion-dollar test run.
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All made possible after the breathtaking launch of Artemis (one) and NASA’s massive Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket in November. Perched atop the SLS sat the Orion crew capsule with three test dummies in the cabin. NASA says the mission exceeds even its expectations as the agency looks to send four astronauts into lunar orbit in 2024 aboard Artemis (two). And if that mission goes well, NASA will look to land humans on the moon aboard Artemis (three) as early as 2025 after half-a-century without human visitors.
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Speaking of long times between visits, French President Emmanuel Macron made the first state visit of U.S. President Joe Biden’s presidency, long put on hold due to the pandemic. He and Vice President Kamala Harris pledged continued space partnership from NASA headquarters in Washington.
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Meanwhile in Atlanta, a team of researchers at Georgia Tech is counting the days before the launch of their briefcase-size satellite. It’s part of a NASA mission called “Lunar Flashlight.” The craft will fly close to the moon’s south pole using near-infrared lasers in search of ice. Lunar Flashlight should launch next week and will take about three months to reach the permanently shadowed South Pole flying aboard…
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…you guessed it – a SpaceX rocket. The private spaceflight company this week launched its 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. It carried roughly 35-hundred kilograms of supplies including a pair of solar arrays and tomato seeds that could help create sustainable food sources in space.
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
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in Washington D.C.
Embargo DateDecember 1, 2022 15:35 EST
Byline
VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space
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