I te 1 o Paengawhāwhā 2026, ka tupu te Space Launch System a NASA mai i Kennedy Space Center me te whakapipi i te wha waihanga ā-ngingita ki te haerenga i kāore he tangata i whakatupu ki a ia noa i te whā tekau tau rua. Ko Artemis 2 te waipanga tuatahi o te kiriata nei i tua atu i te pōtaiao Ōrite Ōkoro mai i Apollo 17 i te Hakihea 1972. I te rohe o te tekau ra, ka rere te kiriata nei ki tōnehera ō te Marama me te hoki mai ki te kainga — a, mō ia whakatupuranga ā te raumati i tērā haerenga, ka rorarowahanui te kōrero o ā rātou karaka i te taha o tā tātou Ōrite.
Te Kiriata e Hanga Tūturu
Ko te kiriata a Artemis 2 he tohu noa ake i te whakatika ake mai i te wā a Apollo. Ko te Rangatira Reid Wiseman, he rangatira whakamatai ā-Navy me te mea e whānui ana i te ISS, ka arahi i te waipanga. Ko te Pilot Victor Glover, nāna i rere i te SpaceX Crew-1, ka whakaatua te tangata tuatahi o te kōwhakamatauira ki te rere tua atu i te pōtaiao Ōrite.
Ko te Tohunga Waipanga Christina Koch ka mau i te rekoata o te wā roa rawa ā te wāhine ki te rere ā-ioio — te 328 ra harikoa ki te International Space Station i te 2019-2020. Ka whakaatua te wāhine tuatahi ki te rere ki te Marama. Ko te waihanga ā-ngingita a Canadian Space Agency Jeremy Hansen, he ropu whakapipi ā-CF-18 kua whakahohohia, ka whakaoti i te kiriata nei me te tangata tuatahi Kanadiana me te tuatahi e āhuatanga, e wehe i te pōtaiao Ōrite.
Te Āhuatanga Waipanga
Ko Artemis 2 ka whakatika i te waharoa kore-hoki — te roanga haere i tā te āhuatanga Ōrite me te Marama ki te arai i te rererangi kainga, me te whai kāinga haumaru. Ka tukutukua te waipanga i ngā ahuatanga:
Ka whakakanohi te rakeiti SLS i Orion ki te oranga Ōrite teitei. Ka whakaoti ngā pūnaha, ka ahi i ngā pūnaha a Orion ki te tukuta i te kiriata ki te haerenga ā-whā rā ki te Marama. Ka rere te rererangi ki roto i te 6,500 maero (10,400 km) tata ki te mata o te Marama i mua i te whakatika ki te Ōrite. Ko te wā noa o te waipanga e 10 rā, ka mutu ki te kōwhio ki te Moana Pacific.
I te wā o te rererangi, ka whakamatau te kiriata i ngā pūnaha tautoko ora a Orion i roto i te tīmatanga o te kiriata nei — ngā ture kawhakamana taiao, te tirotiro harikino, ngā pūnaha whakawhitiwhiti, me ngā tikanga āreretanga ināianei me mahi katoa i mua i te tukunga a NASA i ngā waihanga ā-ngingita ki te mata o te Marama i ngā waipanga kei muri.
Te Whakatika Wā i roto i te Wā Tūturu
Kei konei te hononga o te waipanga ki tētehi mea matua noa e pā ana ki te ao. I te wā ka rere te kiriata a Artemis 2 ki te waahi ā-waihanga-marama me te whakapipi tata ki te Marama, ka nui ake te tawhiti mai i te puka āhuatanga Ōrite. Ko te ariā o Einstein mō te āhuatanga ikeike (general relativity) e kī ana ki a tātou kua rere te wā i ngā āhuatanga kawhakamana nui ake — ā, te kawhakamana o te Marama e anamata tata iwa kē te Ōrite.
Ko te ahuatanga anō tēnei i hangaia Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) ki te tautoko. Ko ngā karaka ki te Marama, i te tata rānei, ka rorarowahanui i te ~56.02 maero-hēkona ia rā Ōrite i te taha o ngā karaka ki te mata Ōrite. I te rohe o te waipanga a Artemis 2 ā-tekau rā, ka whakatini ngā karaka o te rererangi ki te tawhiti mai i ngā karaka ā-āwhā.
Na te āhuatanga ikeike anō a Apollo e whānui ana i tēnei whakatika, otirā kāore i te take tika ki te whakatohu i tona tekau. Mō Artemis, kei a tāu te tekau. Me āta whakarite ngā waipanga i mua ki te āhuatanga korikori, te rārangi whakawhitiwhiti, me te matapereti GPS o te Marama. Ko Artemis 2 te huanga tuatahi a te kiriata nei ki tērā hanganga.
Mai Artemis 1 ki Artemis 2
Ka whakakanohi a Artemis 1 i te Ngahowea 2022 hei waipanga matai kore-kiriata, me te tukuta i Orion ki te haerenga ā-25.5-rā ki tōnehera ō te Marama. Ka whakamarautia te rakeiti SLS me te upoko ā-te-āhuatanga o Orion, me te raumati tata ki te 5,000 paeopuare Fahrenheit i te wā hoki mai i te kaupapa 25,000 mph — te kaupapa tere rawa e hauhaunahana ki te rererangi kiriata.
I te wā a Artemis 1 ki te kainga, i kite ngā tohunga i te takai upoko ā-te-āhuatanga iti iho. Kāore i te whakakapia i te upoko, engari i te āhuatanga NASA i te ara hoki-mai mō Artemis 2, me te whakamahi i te arero anamata nui e whakaiti ai i te wā i roto i te taiao haumaru. Ko te whakamatau ā-āwhā i whakamatauria ai te āhuatanga e tū tika ana i te raro o ngā rohe ā-hanga me ngā rohe wera.
Ko Artemis 2 he poto ake i Artemis 1 — te rohe o te tekau rā i te taha o te 25 — nā te mea ko tā tā waipanga he whakamatau i ia pūnaha e mahi tika ana me ngā kiriata. Ka whakaatu hoki te kiriata i te hononga me te mahi tata me te whakamahi i te wahanga o runga kua mahue hei whakatupuranga tuatahi, he āhuatanga e hiahiatia ana mō te hononga ki te Lunar Gateway i ngā waipanga kei muri.
He Aha Ano Ka Haere
Ka hangahanga ia waipanga Artemis ki te noho tūturu ā te tangata ki te Marama:
Mā Artemis 3, aronga te tau whakatokonga o 2027, ka whakamatau i te hononga me te hononga i te pōtaiao Ōrite iti me ngā ururua ranu ā-merketi — Ko Starship Human Landing System a SpaceX me Blue Moon a Blue Origin. Ka whakamatau hoki te kiriata i te āhuatanga ranu Axiom hou i hangaia mō ngā mahi mata Marama.
Mā Artemis 4, aronga i 2028, i te muri rānei, e ritenga te waipanga tuatahi ki te tū-iho o ngā waihanga ā-ngingita ki te pōuri-kinoaroto o te Marama mō te noho tata rua wiki. I tērā wā, e tika ana te hiahia mō te pūnaha wā Marama tekau tika — kia tahi te karaka a ngā kaimahi mata, ngā taonga oranga, me te kawhakamana o te Ōrite. E hiahia ana kia tahi te karaka ki te āhuatanga ikeike e whakaiki ai i te whakatika.
Aroturuki te Waipanga i te Wā Marama
I te wā ka oranga a Artemis 2 ki tōnehera ō te Marama, ka taea e koe te aroturuki mā te karaka Coordinated Lunar Time ora ki te tae o tēnei paetae. Ko te karaka e whakamahi ana i te +56.02 maero-hēkona ia rā te kaupapa hoki ki UTC, ka piki mai i te wā J2000.0 — te whakatika ikeike anō e whānui ana te kiriata a Artemis 2 i te wā rere atu i te Ōrite i te tangata i te roa ake i te 50 tau.