Planetary Science
MARS 2 CAPSULE
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Artemis II was a crewed flyby of the Moon. It was the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972, the first crewed flight of the NASA-led Artemis program, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), and the first crewed flight of the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the four-person crew.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 19, 1971 at 04:22 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars-2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Mars
- Reference body
- Mars
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,210 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-045D
- NORAD catalog №
- 5739
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 27, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 27, 1971
- Time in service
- 192 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Mars.
- Final status
- Decayed