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NASA has delayed the Artemis-2 mission to 2026 due to Orion capsule heat shield issues. The delay also affects Artemis-3 moon landing, now planned for 2027. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the ...
On 11 February 2023, NASA flipped the engine section for the Artemis II core to horizontal, the final major milestone before mating the section to the rest of the vehicle. On 20 March, the engine section was mated with the Artemis II core stage in Building 103 at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
NASA launched the Artemis program's first test flight, Artemis 1, in November 2022, using the agency's new Space Launch System, or SLS, rocket to send an unpiloted Lockheed Martin-built Orion ...
NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the four-member team chosen to fly as early as next ...
Acceptance of the Artemis Accords is a prerequisite for participation in NASA's Artemis lunar program. [ 100 ] Critics also contend that since the Outer Space Treaty expressly forbids nations from staking claim to another planetary body, the Accords violate space law by allowing signatories to lay claim to any resources extracted from celestial ...
Initially proposed to launch in 2023, the circumlunar mission was expected to have taken 6 days to complete, [1] following a free-return trajectory similar to that of Apollo 13. NASA is expected to launch Artemis 2 on a similar trajectory in September 2025, with a crew of four.
The Isaacman nomination has prompted speculation in some quarters that NASA's Artemis moon program, relying on the agency's costly Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, could face ...
Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. On April 3, 2023, Wiseman was selected as the crew commander for the Artemis II mission, which is planned to pass by the Moon no earlier than September 2025. [ 8 ]