Curiosities of the Artemis II mission

We are humans, we really have passions, a spirit of adventure, we ask ourselves curious questions about what lies beyond, what is our destiny in the universe, but we also ask ourselves biological needs and one of the most curious incidents, and we hope it is the only notable one of this mission, is the failure of the ship's toilet. The Orion ship has a real bathroom for the first time, because doing these things in weightlessness or rather in microgravity is extremely complicated, which is why the toilet in question costs between 23 to 30 million dollars. The point is that at the time of the Apollo missions there was a toilet and in many cases they relieved themselves inside the suit or with very basic systems inside the ship, the trip to the moon is not a bed of roses nor does it smell like roses. The thing is that a few hours after the launch of Artemis 2, on April 1, a fault light came on in the toilet, the fan of the urine collection system got stuck, the astronauts could defecate normally, but the collection and expulsion of urine did not work well at first.

The mission commander, Reid Wiseman, is an expert pilot and the four who are here are the best of the best, but in terms of communication and speaking in public and for the media, it gets a little confusing, so he made some statements as if to imply that it was the first time that humans were sent to the moon and the clip went very viral, generating thousands of comments like, "What happened to the Apollo missions? Or did the conspiracy theorists start to come out?" this time", "no, there were never missions to the moon" and "everything was recorded by a film director", the point is that the statements or the complete sentence of the mission commander was, "This is the first time that we will send humans to the Moon and we will have humans in low Earth orbit." In other words, it is the first time that humans are sent to the Moon and at the same time we will have humans in low Earth orbit, but in the end it got mixed up and people were left with the first time. These things are always spectacular and risky, because this is risky, despite what we have said and we have laughed a little about the issue of urine, it is still a very risky mission, you want to get a medal for doing something for the first time and it is understandable, it is normal and okay, it would have been easy to say, “this is the first time in this century that humans have been sent to the orbit of the Moon”, but that's the thing.

Many things can go wrong and I would hope that it would only be the above, I would like them to return home safely and that they had tested the ship and that everything worked well, because if it works well, which is the fundamental purpose of this mission, to test this new ship, the trajectory and it will also do other experiments, but basically it is testing the ship, the entire computer system of the ship and all the systems, the window is now open to return to the moon, at least within the international Artemis program, because China is also following its projects. And this year 2026, China is going to launch its uncrewed lunar ship to the Moon, into the orbit of the Moon, it will be a test similar to Artemis 1 that was done in 2022.

It has also been confused whether they are the first to see the hidden side of the moon, and the Apollo missions have done so, we know the lunar surface perfectly, it is widely mapped by space waves, dozens of space missions that have thoroughly mapped the entire lunar surface, we are simply talking about human vision, that is, humans seeing the surface of the moon with their eyes, that is, the hidden side is already known since the first Soviet mission that took the first photo of the hidden side.

But is there really any special place that, due to the orbit of Artemis 2, would be seen for the first time with human eyes? Well, yes, there are some specific areas of the hidden side of the moon and on the border with the visible side that the Artemis 2 astronauts will be the first humans to see with their own eyes under direct sunlight, this is not the entire hidden side, I repeat, the astronauts of the Apollo missions already saw the hidden side years ago, but we are talking about small areas and with a certain light, because here we enter one of the novelties of the Artemis missions or the Artemis program and that is that they are not going to enter a low lunar orbit as was the case with the Apollo missions.

It is a quick flyby in a figure-of-eight trajectory at a much higher altitude than the Apollo missions. The Apollo missions touched the lunar surface at 100 km high. These will pass between 6,000 and 14,000 km from the lunar surface. basketball placed in the hand with the arm extended, it is a very wide field of vision that the astronauts of the Artemis missions will see and that includes polar regions and regions bordering the entire disk, that is, the astronauts of the Apollo missions saw the surface of the Moon in much better detail with their eyes, but those of the Artemis missions will be able to capture it better thanks to the spacecraft's cameras.

And yes, on the hidden side it will be night, but not completely at night, they will be able to see 20% of that hidden side illuminated by the sun and also precisely in an orientation that has never before coincided with a manned mission, the Apollo missions were on the visible side, when the visible side was well illuminated, because all the moon landings or landings on the moon were on the visible side and they needed it to be broad daylight to be able to see well and the hidden side was almost in the dark or in shadows, just maybe they could see small portions as in this case, that is why these astronauts from the Artemis missions will be able to see things that in the Apollo missions they did not see or did not see with the same angle of illumination, what happens is that visually they are going to see it worse because they are going to be much further away, in short they are going to see different things.

So don't miss it, it is a unique opportunity at this time.

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