If the first flight goes well, the Artemis 2 mission, expected to launch in the late 2024 timeframe, will carry four astronauts on a long loop around the moon and then back to Earth. That will set the stage for Artemis 3 in 2025 or 2026, a flight to put thefirst womanand the next...
The Artemis 2 moon crew during a launch simulation at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 20, 2023. They stand on the crew access arm at Launch 39B, which will one day bring them to the waiting Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. From left: NASA astronaut and pilot Victor...
Artemis 2 will launch the SLS rocket and Orion with a crew,which will fly past the Moon,then circle it and return to the Earth.This trip will be the farthest one any human has experienced in space. Artemis 3 will send a crew,including the first woman astronaut and a black astronaut,...
Asked about that schedule later, he said that even if Artemis 2 launched as previously scheduled in late 2024, “we would still need the extra time” for Artemis 3. He called the September 2026 launch date for Artemis 3 “aggressive” but neither he nor Jim Free, NASA associate administrato...
The launch is targeted for late 2024, with Wiseman serving as the mission’s commander, Glover the pilot, and Koch and Hansen as mission specialists. This mission will also mark the first time that a Canadian has ventured to the moon and back. ...
Following Artemis II, NASA plans to launch Artemis III sometime in 2025, which will deliver humans to the surface of the Moon for the first time since December 1972. The success of these missions will act as stepping st...
that the bonding goes beyond the crew to the vast ground teams supporting their mission. Many of the trainers on Artemis 2, for example, will bedirectly responsible for key systemson the spacecraft. And the Artemis 2 crew spent part of their time here in Florida working with the launch ...
Like the uncrewedArtemis 1and crewed Artemis 2, this mission aims to launch the giganticSpace Launch System(SLS) megarocket andOrion spacecraft. For landing on the moon, the crew will useSpaceX's Starship, a system that the California company is developing right now for crewed human missions...
NASA isfinallyreturning to the Moon. The world is eagerly awaiting the launch of Artemis I, the first demonstration flight of both the Space Launch System and Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, which combined will send humans out of low Earth orbit for the first time since 1972. But it’s ...
But mission managers opted to delay the launch to give engineers more time to resolve an issue with the Orion capsule's protective heat shield that was found after theArtemis 1 re-entry.They also need to correct more recently discovered problems with critical batteries that were ...