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Live coverage of the landing, jointly hosted by Firefly and NASA, will air on NASA+ starting at 2:30 a.m. EST, approximately 75 minutes before the scheduled touch down on the moon’s surface.
Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first 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 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 ...
Artemis 3: Mid-2027 [6] TBA: SLS Block 1 Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d Carrying Artemis III mission hardware. First lunar landing of the Artemis program. [7] Artemis 4: September 2028 [8] [9] TBA: SLS Block 1B Crew Kennedy Space Center, LC-39B: ≈30d Second Artemis Lunar landing. Debut of the SLS Block 1B and the Exploration Upper ...
Artemis I was completed at 09:40 PST (17:40 UTC) on 11 December, when the Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, after a record-breaking mission, which saw Artemis travel more than 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) on a path around the Moon before returning safely to Earth.
Heat shield damage seen during the first Artemis test flight is now understood, NASA says, but more time is needed to implement fixes.
NASA's demonstration mission for the Human Landing System prior to Artemis 3, announced in April 2021. For this mission, SpaceX attempts to land a Starship HLS on the Moon. (Before this, an unknown number of successful refueling flights will be required, estimated to be in the high teens. [61]) 2026 Unknown HLS: TBA