ESA’s space shop has a whole collection of posters, clothes and goodies based on the European Service Module that is powering Orion and Artemis to the Moon.
In an inception twist the Orion spacecraft is transporting its own likelihood – the Orion and European Service Module USB stick. A model of the spacecraft itself inside the real thing, the USB stick is being flown farther than any human-rated spacecraft has ever flown and we are pretty sure it will be the farthest a consumer USB storage device has ever travelled from Earth and return.
We couldn’t send an empty USB stick into space of course, and as data has no weight, we filled the USB stick with pictures and messages from ESA personnel and family to thank the ESA workforce who made this mission.
Also included is a picture of Bremen, Germany, after which the first European Service Module was named, and where the European Service Modules are built up from the frame to the finished hardware.
Buy your own European Service Module goodies in our Artemis collection here.
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Very much appreciated, the image of Bremen :-), congratulation so far to the successful mission