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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the first crewed mission of the Artemis II will fly around the moon after an opportune launch window sometime between early February and the end of April. The mission will be capped by the deployment of the Orion space capsule’s parachutes, rigorously evaluated at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in multiple developmental tests between 2011 and 2018.The mission’s pilot is slated to be Victor Glover, an astronaut who witnessed multiple developmental tests of the Capsule Parachute Assembly System (CPAS) here.
Here, Glover (center) speaks to media representatives in the moments before a test of the CPAS on August 26, 2015. “A rocket with an American flag on the side of it is one of the most important things NASA is going to do in the near future in human spaceflight,” he said at the time
| Date Taken: | 08.26.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 05.09.2023 09:55 |
| Photo ID: | 7783717 |
| Resolution: | 4256x2832 |
| Size: | 2.31 MB |
| Location: | YUMA PROVING GROUND, ARIZONA, US |
| Web Views: | 25 |
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