What is the latest news with Artemis?

Artemis 1 is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than late May 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

How is the Artemis program doing?

Artemis 1 was originally scheduled for late 2021, but the launch date has been pushed back to no earlier than August 2022. Artemis II (2024) will be the first crewed test flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft.

Will Artemis return?

NASA’s most optimistic planning documents show the Artemis 3 landing in 2025 and then a hiatus of astronaut landings until 2028. Many lunar scientists say they will take whatever they can get.

Will Artemis 2 be manned?

Artemis 2. This will be a pioneering crewed spaceflight for the Artemis Program, taking humans further than they’ve ever been in space. After being launched into space by the SLS rocket, the four-person crew will fly the Orion module 8889 km beyond the Moon, complete a lunar flyby and return to Earth.

What new item is NASA trying to send to the Moon?

NASA Artemis. With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before.

Who will be the first woman on moon?

Jessica Watkins Could Be the First Woman and Person of Color on the Moon. The Lafayette astronaut is training for NASA’s Artemis mission, which aims to return humans to the lunar landscape by 2024.

Is Artemis 2 being built?

Artemis II : the first crewed mission around the Moon in half a century. A Canadian astronaut will be part of Artemis II , the first crewed mission to the Moon since 1972 . This mission, planned to launch no later than May 2024 , would make Canada the second country to have an astronaut fly around the Moon.

Who will be the crew of Artemis 2?

While personnel have not yet been announced for the mission, the four-person crew of Artemis 2 will include a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut, the first Canadian to travel beyond low Earth orbit, under the terms of a 2020 treaty between the United States and Canada.