Artemis I, NASA's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft, sits on Launch Pad 39- B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. - Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Artemis I isn’t just a mission to orbit the moon. It’s the beginning of a new era for NASA that promises to not just return humans to the lunar surface, but to press on to Mars. “We are explorers and adventurers as a species,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at a news conference Saturday. “That basically is the fulfillment of our destiny. But in that exploration, we’re going to learn new things and develop new things that are going to improve ― just as it’s been under our space program — our lives here on Earth.” That’s the high-minded end goal of the Artemis p...
