NASA's 'Moonikin' mannequin boards Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1 moon mission
On NASA's brand-new Space Launch System megarocket, Commander Moonikin Campos will go to the moon aboard Orion. The Orion spacecraft, which will go to the moon atop a brand-new megarocket, has now been equipped with the data-gathering mannequin Commander Moonikin Campos by NASA. Campos has been successfully fitted into the Orion Capsule, which is atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 1 trip around the moon, according to a tweet from NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team on July 27. The date of liftoff is presently set for August 29. Moonkin Campos is a human-sized test dummy that is now fastened onto the commander's chair at the front of the capsule. It is named after Arturo Campus, an electrical engineer who was crucial in bringing the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth. Moonkin will give NASA scientists important information on what potential human crew members may go through during flight during the voyage. NASA's Artemis program's unmann...