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Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959. The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 (January 1959), the first probe to leave Earth and fly past another astronomical body.
Artemis VII is expected to launch in March 2032. According to NASA, the objectives of this mission would be to deliver the Habitable Mobility Platform (Lunar Cruiser) to the surface of the moon on an SLS Block 1B rocket. The mission is expected to last around 30 days. [20] [19]
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.
The $93 million mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, is one of multiple robotic lunar missions NASA hired Firefly to complete under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program or ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Thursday new delays in the U.S. space agency's Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 ...
NASA’s efforts to return astronauts to the moon have been delayed — again. The agency announced Tuesday that its next Artemis mission, which was to have sent four astronauts on a flight around ...
During the mission, an uncrewed Orion capsule spent 10 days in a distant retrograde 60,000 kilometers (37,000 mi) orbit around the Moon before returning to Earth. [10] Artemis II, the first crewed mission of the program, will launch four astronauts in 2025 [11] on a free-return flyby of the Moon at a distance of 8,900 kilometers (5,500 mi). [12 ...
The mission comes as NASA prepares to send American astronauts back to the moon's surface under its Artemis campaign – the agency's first lunar program since the Apollo missions came to an end ...