Livin’ the dream 🚀 On July 19, 2023, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts toured the U.S. Navy’s Defense Distribution Depot Center in San Diego, California. The depot was being used by NASA to house the Vehicle Advanced Demonstrator for Emergency Recovery (VADER), a replica of the Orion crew module. In preparation for the agency’s Artemis II crewed mission, NASA and the USNavy are conducting a series of tests to demonstrate and evaluate the processes, procedures, and hardware used in Orion recovery operations for crewed lunar missions. NASA astronauts Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen will venture around the Moon on Artemis II. The approximately 10-day flight will test NASA’s foundational human deep space exploration capabilities for the first time with astronauts and will pave the way to establishing a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. Don’t miss an...