{"id":705417,"date":"2021-10-18T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705417"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:43:00","slug":"unboxing-a-lunar-spacecraft-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=705417","title":{"rendered":"Unboxing a lunar spacecraft module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Unboxing_a_lunar_spacecraft_module_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unpacking the European Service Module-2 for NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, USA. This is the last stopover on Earth before the made-in-Europe powerhouse takes the first astronauts around the Moon on the Artemis II mission.<\/p>\n<p>An Antonov aircraft sent the module across the Atlantic in a custom-built container from Bremen, Germany. Upon arrival at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the second European Service Module (ESM-2) will be connected to the crew module. Together they form the Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The service module is a critical element for Orion \u2013 it provides propulsion, power and thermal control and will supply astronauts with water and oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>Extensive testing awaits before integration with the launcher. Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esatv\/Videos\/2021\/10\/European_Service_Module_B-Rolls\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Access the broadcast quality version of the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/10\/Unboxing_a_lunar_spacecraft_module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Unboxing a lunar spacecraft module<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unpacking the European Service Module-2 for NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, USA. This is the last stopover on Earth before the made-in-Europe powerhouse takes the first astronauts around&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705418,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/705418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}