Preparations continue for the Artemis program, where NASA will send humans to the Moon again after 53 years. NASA has announced that it will use the animated character Shaun the Sheep as a test flight dummy on the rocket Artemis 1, which will be launched for testing on August 29. The European Space Agency has announced that it will begin its unmanned mission later this year. While Shaun the Sheep isn't a live character, he will technically be the first European Space Agency astronaut to go to the Moon on the Artemis mission. Since the Artemis 1 mission will be carried out unmanned, choosing an animation character allows the project to attract more attention. The flight dummy chosen by NASA will be aboard the Orion spacecraft, which will be launched to the Moon. If everything is normal and there is no problem, the capsule will return to Earth after spending 39 to 42 days in space.
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