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2020s > USA > NASA > Artemis missions

USA > NASA program > Artemis

(Artemis) aims to send people back to the moon

for the first time since the end of NASA’s Apollo program

in 1972.

(...)

NASA hopes to launch its first Artemis mission next year,

but that will be a crewless flight designed to test a giant rocket

called the Space Launch System and the Orion capsule

where the astronauts will ride.

The first flight with astronauts is scheduled for 2023.

That flight is to swing past the moon but not land

— a 21st century equivalent of the 1968 Apollo 8 flight.

The mission after that, Artemis 3,

is the one that is to land on the moon,

likely somewhere near the South Pole,

which is of interest because frozen water

in shadowed craters has been found there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/
science/nasa-astronauts-moon.html

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/
artemis/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Artemis_program

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/
1249249941/nasa-bill-nelson-moon-artemis-china-starliner

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/
1141863877/apollo-17-nasa-moon-landing

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/
1141946917/nasa-artemis-splashdown-moon-mission

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/
1138247211/orion-capsule-moon-orbit-test-nasa

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/20/
from-apollo-to-artemis-
50-years-on-is-it-time-to-go-back-to-the-moon

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/
science/nasa-capstone-moon-launch.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/
science/nasa-astronauts-moon.html

Artemis >

Cubesat, robotic probe > CAPSTONE spacecraft >

The full name of the mission is

the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System

Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment.

It will act as a scout for the lunar orbit

where a crewed space station

will eventually be built as part of Artemis.

That outpost, named Gateway,

will serve as a way station

where future crews will stop

 before continuing on to the lunar surface.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/
science/nasa-capstone-moon-launch.html

 322-foot-tall moon rocket

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

get this rocket off the ground

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

be stymied by technical glitches

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

hydrogen leak

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

take to the skies

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

crew capsule > white, bell-shaped capsule, called Orion

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/21/
1138247211/orion-capsule-moon-orbit-test-nasa

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

embark on a 25-day test flight

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

 1.2-million-mile trip

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

splash down in the Pacific Ocean

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

development costs

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/16/
1137046007/nasa-artemis-moon-rocket-launch-success

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