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On 20 July 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. At the same time another mission, the robotic sample return mission Luna 15 by the Soviet Union, was in orbit around the Moon, becoming together with Apollo 11 the first ever case of two extraterrestrial missions being conducted at the ...
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.
In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama established the Augustine Committee to take into account several objectives including support for the International Space Station, development of missions beyond low Earth orbit (including the Moon, Mars, and near-Earth objects), and use of the commercial space industry within defined budget limits. [20]
That means the Artemis III mission, which intends to send astronauts back to the moon's surface for the first time in more than 50 years, now will happen no earlier than 2027, NASA said.
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 ...
Trump takes office on Jan. 20. NASA's Artemis I mission was a 25-day voyage around the moon ending when the Orion capsule, carrying a simulated crew of three mannequins, made a splash down in the ...
The Manfred Memorial Moon Mission was launched on 23 October 2014. It conducted a lunar flyby and operated for 19 days which was four times longer than expected. The Manfred Memorial Moon Mission remained attached to the upper stage of its launch vehicle (CZ-3C/E). The spacecraft along with its upper stage impacted the Moon on 4 March 2022. [76 ...
2 years 310 days First Indian Lunar mission; discovered water on the Moon. Soft landers and rovers Chandrayaan-2: 22 July 2019 LVM3: 20 August 2019 6 September 2019 – Partial success Ongoing 7.5 years 5 years, 3 months, 9 days elapsed First Indian Lunar lander and rover mission; lander crashed. Chandrayaan-3: 14 July 2023 5 August 2023 23 ...