LOOKING FOR NEW HORIZONS BEYOND THE MOON
LOOKING FOR NEW HORIZONS BEYOND THE MOON Nikunja BIhari Sahu As the world's most powerful ‘Space Launch System' rocket carrying atop the Orion capsule roared off the launch pad of Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on 1st April 2026 on its way to the Moon, the moon race was back again. NASA is going to resume from where it had left in 1972 which was the last crewed lunar mission with Apollo 17 spacecraft. With its ambitious Artemis program, NASA aims not just for a symbolic return to our closest celestial neighbour with flags and footprints, but a long term goal to explore deep space in a way that has never happened before. Artemis II is the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft beyond the limits of low earth orbit since the Apollo 17 mission. It carried four astronauts i...
