“The people of the Artemis generation, throughout this beautiful world, will bear witness to what we are capable of. Together, we are going back to the Moon.” The woman's declaration of intent is not pretentious nor has anyone pronounced it: the Valencian engineer Eduardo García Llama will direct next Monday a team that will guide the Artemis I mission ship on its first test takeoff for the flight that will take a Satellite to Earth.
NASA hired him in 1997 for another project and he stayed. Now its time has come, in Houston -of course- and with the initial challenge that there is nothing going on in the delicate transit between the moment the Orion spacecraft separates from the rocket that will propel it until it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere.
This same week, he posted a video on his Facebook account with the slogan "We are capable" in which the technical data of this prodigious mission with the first technology capable of (hence the title) enter deep space.
The Valencian engineer Eduardo García Llama, in a photo spread on his ABC social networks
Among other details, there will be "solid propulsion" rockets that will produce a combined 7,2 million pounds of power in delivery, including NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and Spacecraft. Orions are ready to start a "new chapter of exploration", both already fully assembled at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, they will launch on Monday still without a crew, around the Moon, "paving the way for astronauts", according to the explanations offered in this video.
"This powerful system represents everything that is possible, everything that is capable of tormenting our unimos in a tornado has an impressive vision...", the Spanish engineer expresses by way of confession, "excited" with the audiovisual.
With the baggage of those already two long decades of work and research, essays and enthusiasm for his vocation linked to space, García Llama has abundant information to divulge what the first man's trip to the Moon represented and how it took place, in 1969.
and 50 years ago
And it is what he has done in a book that he continues to promote on his social networks, now as a recommended reading for the summer, in addition, with the other expedition warming up to take the first woman, so he regains relevance.
After its publication in 2019, coinciding with the anniversary of the feat carried out by astronaut Neil Armstrong, the Spanish engineer remembers this work like this: 'Apollo 11', where I tell the exciting story of how man stepped on the Moon for the first time.
In addition to describing in detail all kinds of technical curiosities of that technology that allowed in the summer of 1969 to overcome a physical barrier never before crossed in history, García Llama includes in this book anecdotes of the flight and experiences unknown to the general public.
