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As component of its Artemis programme to return human beings to the moon, NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft to map the orbit of the prepared Lunar Gateway room station has taken off from New Zealand
Space
28 June 2022
, updated 28 June 2022
An artist’s impression of the CAPSTONE spacecraft in orbit about the moon Illustration by NASA/Daniel Rutter
NASA’s return to the moon has begun with the start of its CAPSTONE spacecraft, which will test the orbit of a long term lunar room station. It is the first action in the Artemis programme, which aims to set a man and the initially woman on the moon by 2025.
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technologies Functions and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) blasted off at 10.55 BST on 22 June from the Māhia peninsula in New Zealand. It took …
