Foto de stock - Orion, NASA’s newest spacecraft built for humans, will be capable of sending astronauts to the Moon and eventually on to Mars. An uncrewed Orion will be tested on Artemis I and will travel 40,000 miles past the Moon, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has gone before. This mission will precede a crewed Artemis II mission and subsequent missions that will deliver astronauts to the surface of the Moon and to the lunar Gateway. Orion’s crew module, sometimes referred to as the capsule, can provide living space on missions for four astronauts for up to 21 days without docking to another spacecraft. Advances in technology for deep space travel such as life support, avionics, power systems, and state-of-the-art thermal protection will support the crew during launch, landing, and recovery. The service module is the spacecraft’s powerhouse: supplying it with electricity, propulsion, thermal control, air, and water. It will carry astronauts to deep space. The launch abort system, positioned at the top of the spacecraft, is only used to pull the crew module and the astronauts inside it safely away from the rocket in the event of an emergency, and will be jettisoned after a successful launch and ascent atop the Space Launch System rocket. At the conclusion of a mission, Orion’s crew module will separate from the service module shortly before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere. The crew module is the only portion of Orion that will return to Earth. On early flights, high-value crew module components such as avionics, and environmental control and life support systems will be reused, with plans to reuse more components on later missions. Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term, sustainable lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone for future astronaut missions to Mars. Credit: NASA via CNP. - Cape Canaveral/Florida/Vereinigte Staaten