After its trip to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. The maiden flight of the Artemis program has not been manned, but Orion carried five souvenirs to honor the legacy of lunar exploration.
NASA has a long tradition of saving messages hidden aboard their ships space. In 1977, the Voyager 1 and the Voyager 2 they launched into interstellar space with a 12-inch gold-plated copper record known as The Golden Record. The phonograph record included various images and sounds that represent life on Earth, by itself. the aliens did findn ever. More recently, NASA engineers encoded a binary message in the parachute del rover Perseverance which read: “Dare Mighty Things” (Dare to do difficult things).
For the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, NASA focused on the moon theme. The Orion capsule had five hidden messages placed around the crew cabin, revealed own NASA in a press release on Saturday.
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El código binario del número 18 se colocó en la parte superior del asiento del piloto como tributo al programa Apolo from NASA. On December 11, 1972, the Apollo 17 mission made its moon landing.marking the last time astronauts walked on the lunar surface.
With the Artemis program, NASA hopes to land humans on the Moon as part of the Artemis 3 mission that will not take place before 2025. The number 18 symbolizes humanity’s return to the Moon after Apollo 17.
Fly Me to the Moon
On the right side of the Orion spacecraft, the letters CBAGF appear written under one of the windows. The letters symbolize the Frank Sinatra song, “Fly Me to the Moon”, representing the musical notes of the familiar melody.
a red cardinal
NASA placed an image of a bruise above the window to the right of the Orion pilot’s seat as a tribute to Mark Geyer, former manager of the Orion program, who died in 2021. Geyer was a devoted fan of the St. Louis Cardinals, according to NASA.
charlie in code
The space agency also paid tribute to the life of former Orion Program Deputy Director Charlie Lundquist, who died in 2020.
NASA included Morse code “Charlie” to acknowledge the role Lundquist played in the development of Orion.
European cooperation
NASA acknowledged the cooperation of its partners at the European Space Agency who developed the service module for the Orion spacecraft.
In front of the pilot’s seat, the space agency included the codes from each country that participated in the development of the spacecraft, including the United States, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, and Netherlands.