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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. [26] 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.
Crewed test of the Orion spacecraft on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. NASA: Artemis III: Orion, Starship HLS: mid-2027 [156] SLS Block 1: 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.
We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we ...
Koch, who holds three degrees from NC State, is set to become the first woman to fly to the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission next year.
ICYMI, we're going back to the moon. And just days ago, NASA named the four astronauts for the incredibly important Artemis II mission: Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover, as ...
NASA is inviting people to send their names to the Moon aboard its first-ever robotic lunar rover, VIPER. Here's how you can get involved.
Jim Lovell and Fred Haise were scheduled to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 13 mission, but the lunar landing was aborted following an explosion in the spacecraft service module en route to the Moon. Haise was again scheduled to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19, but Apollo 18 and Apollo 19 were canceled on September 2, 1970.
NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) sought proposals in 2019 from U.S. institutions and U.S. companies to fly their CubeSat missions as secondary payloads aboard the SLS on the Artemis II mission. [11] [12] NASA would accept proposals for both 6-unit (12 kg, 26 lb) and 12-unit (20 kg, 44 lb) CubeSats. [13]