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On 26 March 2019, Vice President Mike Pence announced that NASA's Moon landing goal would be accelerated by four years with a planned landing in 2024. [27] 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.
Emblem of the Artemis program. The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States.The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-term objectives include establishing an international expedition team, and a sustainable human presence on the Moon.
Deliver the "first woman and next man" to the Moon. NASA: Artemis IV: Orion, Starship HLS: September 2028 [157] SLS Block 1B: First flight of Block 1B configuration. Deliver Lunar I-Hab and conduct second Artemis crewed lunar landing. NASA: Artemis V: Orion, Blue Moon HLS: March 2030 [157] SLS Block 1B: Crewed Gateway and Surface expedition.
The space agency has outlined nine potential lunar landing sites for its Artemis III mission, the agency's first planned return to the moon in over five decades. The mission, set for 2026, intends ...
The first human moon landing in over 50 years has been postponed to 2026. NASA's Artemis II mission, aiming to return humans to the moon's orbit by Nov. of this year, has been rescheduled to Sept ...
As for the Artemis 3 lunar landing flight, the new mid-2027 target launch date assumes SpaceX's lunar lander, a variant of the upper stage used by the company's new Super Heavy-Starship rocket ...
Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first American crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972. [6] As of December 2024, NASA officially expects Artemis III to launch no earlier than mid-2027 due to heat shield issues on Orion and valve problems in the spacecraft's life support system. [7] [8]
The reasoning behind the delay was credited to issues with the Orion spacecraft heat shield during Artemis I, which was an uncrewed mission to the moon that launched from NASA's Kennedy Space ...