00:00Orion is NASA's crewed spacecraft and unlike Apollo, Orion is not a system for just a few days, but for
00:07real deep space missions.
00:09The capsule is about 3.3 meters high and has a diameter of 5 meters.
00:15It has a launch mass of about 26 metric tons and, thanks to the ESM, can operate autonomously in space
00:23for up to 21 days.
00:26The ESM is built by the European Space Agency, ESA, or more precisely by Airbus Defence in Space in Bremen.
00:33Without Europe, Artemis simply wouldn't exist in this form, some say.
00:38But NASA certainly could have raised that extra billion and built the service module themselves.
00:45It was more of a political favor to give their closest ally something to do as well.
00:51The ESM is a technical masterpiece.
00:54Please don't get me wrong, but the Americans could have done it themselves if they wanted to.
00:59The ESM provides propulsion, power, oxygen, water, thermal control and navigation.
