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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.
Artemis III is planned to be the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight of the Starship HLS lander. [5] 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]
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 has selected several lunar sites where astronauts could once again land on the moon. The agency is set to send humans back to the moon during its Artemis III mission, which won’t happen ...
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 ...
Scientists are excited to explore the moon's polar region, parts of which are perpetually shaded from the sun. and potential landing sites for Artemis III.
Artemis II will be the first crewed launch from Launch Complex 39B of the Kennedy Space Center since STS-116 in 2006. The launch was originally designated Exploration Mission-2 ( EM-2 ) when the mission was intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now-cancelled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission ; it was renamed ...
But if Artemis I succeeds, NASA plans to send the spaceship with astronauts next time. Photos from NASA's Artemis mission zipping past the moon reveal a view no astronaut has seen firsthand in 50 ...