Abstract: Orion’s Artemis I vehicle flew around the moon and back on November 16th, 2022 to December 11th, 2022. Orion was launched by the world’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). Orion spent 26 days in space doing a Distant Retrograde Orbit around the moon in order to test out most of the systems that will take our astronauts back to the moon. This time to stay and learn how to live in deep space so that we can then travel to Mars and beyond. Join me in a review of this historic mission and what’s to come.

Bio: Corey Brooker has been working on the Orion Program within the Commercial Civil Space Line of Business at Lockheed Martin Space for the past 15 years. He is currently the Senior Manager for Orion’s Systems Environments and Specialty Engineering. Systems Environments includes: Aerosciences (ascent & reentry aerodynamics, purge & vent, and plume impingement); Thermal analysis for Active and Passive thermal control systems; and the Loads & Dynamics analysis for events such as liftoff, ascent, acoustics, aborts, separation, docking, control, descent and landing. Specialty area includes: Reliability & Maintainability; Electromagnetic Compatibility & Interference; Radiation; and Micrometeorite and Orbital Debris analyses.