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On 14 May 2019, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the new program would be named Artemis, after the goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology who is the twin sister of Apollo. [ 26 ] [ 28 ] Despite the immediate new goals, Mars missions by the 2030s were still intended as of May 2019 [update] .
The Luna programme was the first successful lunar programme, its Luna 1 (1959) being the first partially successful lunar mission The first image taken of the far side of the Moon, returned by Luna 3 (1959) Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959.
Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), [9] was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that was launched in November 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA 's Artemis program , Artemis I marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program five decades earlier.
NASA’s Artemis program, a follow-up to the Apollo moonshots of the late 1960s and early 1970s, has completed only one mission. An empty Orion capsule circled the moon in 2022 after blasting off ...
NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a three-man one-woman crew around the moon to thoroughly test the spacecraft's life support, propulsion and other ...
NASA is planning to return humankind to the moon for the first time in over five decades. The agency has narrowed its safe landing sights down to nine. NASA identifies 9 possible landing spots for ...
In March 2024, NASA announced the scientific instruments to be included on the mission were a compact, autonomous seismometer suite called the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station, or LEMS. LEMS will characterize the regional structure of the Moon's crust and mantle to inform the development of lunar formation and evolution models.
Nasa says its Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon will be further delayed. The space agency found problems with the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft that will eventually carry ...