Last Sunday, as you may remember, the Artemis I mission was completed, with the Orion spacecraft arriving exactly where it was planned at the time it was planned. A return that ended a journey that began 25 days earlier on November 16. A very important mission for various reasons, the success of which opens the door to a more than promising space future after several decades in which only the commercial use of Earth orbit seemed to shake the interest of the parties involved.

As we have said on several occasions, Artemis is NASA’s most ambitious project in decades, in cooperation with other agencies such as ESA, we can also confirm that it is the most ambitious in history, if it ends up meeting all the goals originally set. And it is true that the Artemis I mission was the first test, but let’s remember that the global goal is for a human being to step on the moon again within this decade, ideally as early as 2025, and take the first human. to be on another planet, Mars, sometime in the next decade.

If you’ve followed the mission since the beginning, you’ll know that it suffered numerous delays, mainly due to problems with the SLS (Space Launch System), NASA’s new launch vehicle with which the US space agency is renewing its mission years. later, independence in terms of its own launch system, something that has not happened since the end of the space shuttle program.

With the successful completion of Artemis I, it is time to begin preparations for Artemis II, which will be the project’s first manned mission and will take Orion back into lunar orbit, though not yet on the surface. However, and even though everyone involved is already working on it, there’s nothing wrong with taking a moment to look back to take some satisfaction in reviewing the best moments of this first and successful mission.

To this end, the European Space Agency (ESA) has published a video in which, in just over a minute, it concentrates some of the best moments and images of Artemis I, from its takeoff from Cape Canaveral to its splashdown in the waters of the Pacific Ocean. A video in which, in about 70 seconds (except for the part of it that is not mission-specific, but generic to the space agency), which I recommend you watch in full screen, you will be able to live (or relive, if you have already watched Artemis I during its development) Orion’s approach to the Moon, its orbit around our natural satellite and other notable moments.

And once that’s over, if you want to watch it again in the future, you’ll also be sure to enjoy this second video, also from ESA, in which you can see a recreation of the entire mission’s service module, the agency’s main contribution to this program mission.