Artemis II
Space Travel Movies
Rockets and Launches
Historic Missions
Living in Space
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Artemis II is planned as the first crewed test flight of this NASA deep-space program.
Artemis
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In this 1968 film, astronauts head toward Jupiter after discovering a mysterious monolith.
2001: A Space Odyssey
100
This force pushes rocket exhaust downward and the rocket upward.
Thrust
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This Apollo mission made the first crewed landing on the Moon in 1969.
Apollo 11
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Astronauts floating because they are in continuous free-fall experience this apparent condition.
Microgravity
200
The four-person Artemis II crew will travel around this celestial body before returning to Earth.
The Moon
200
This 2013 film starring Sandra Bullock follows an astronaut stranded in Earth orbit after debris destroys her shuttle.
Gravity
200
Most large launch vehicles drop empty sections during flight; those sections are called these.
Stages
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This was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Sputnik 1
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On the ISS, astronauts must exercise regularly to reduce the loss of this and muscle in microgravity.
Bone density
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Artemis II will use this spacecraft, mounted on top of the Space Launch System rocket.
Orion
300
In this movie, Cooper pilots the Endurance through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity.
Interstellar
300
NASA's heavy-lift rocket for Artemis missions is known by this three-word name or its initials.
Space Launch System
300
This NASA program used reusable orbiters such as Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.
Space Shuttle
300
This orbital laboratory has been continuously inhabited by crews since November 2000.
The International Space Station
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Unlike Apollo 11, Artemis II is not planned to do this on the lunar surface.
Land on the Moon
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Matt Damon plays astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded on Mars in this film.
The Martian
400
This Soviet-designed rocket family launched Yuri Gagarin and still has modern descendants flying today.
Soyuz
400
This mission in 1970 survived an oxygen-tank explosion and returned its crew safely to Earth.
Apollo 13
400
Before a spacewalk, astronauts put on this pressurized garment.
A spacesuit
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This Canadian astronaut on Artemis II will become the first non-American to travel to the Moon.
Jeremy Hansen
500
This 1983 film dramatizes astronauts training for the Mercury program and Chuck Yeager's test-pilot career.
The Right Stuff
500
Reusable boosters from this company often land vertically after launch.
SpaceX
500
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are best known for exploring these outer planets before heading toward interstellar space.
The outer planets
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This standard time reference is commonly used to coordinate spacecraft and station operations.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
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