NASA ARTEMIS Program - First Woman and Next Man on the Moon

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With the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with our commercial and

international partners and establish sustainable exploration by 2028. Then, we will use what we learn on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap – sending astronauts to Mars.

NASA: Artemis

Artemis is the name of NASA's program to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024. We are going forward to the Moon to stay.

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NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Moon Missions

NASA Names Companies to Develop Human Landers for Artemis Missions

NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024.

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NASA Lunar Gateway For Artemis Program To Be Ready By 2023



NASA Lunar Gateway Explained
The current NASA schedule involves sending humans to the Moon by 2024 as part of the Artemis Program. Recently, NASA awarded three companies to work on the lunar lander for the Program. Scientists and astronomers are collectively working on how to get humans to land on the Moon.

As part of the mission plan, the Lunar Gateway involves staging the first human landing from the Gateway in high lunar orbit. However, Ars Technica reports that both NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and the space agency's chief of human spaceflight, Doug Loverro, said the Gateway was an essential part of NASA's long-term plans to not only to return humans to the Moon but to do so in a sustainable manner.

NASA Lunar Gateway For Artemis Program To Be Ready By 2023

NASA Artemis Program is one of the much-anticipated missions to explore the Moon. As part of the mission, NASA is working on the Lunar Gateway project, which will serve as a space station for scientific experiments on the Moon.

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Trump Plans to Legalize Mining the Moon

Trump Plans to Legalize Mining the Moon

But the U.S. hasn't shared the pact with other countries yet. Especially not Russia.

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NASA Commits to Future Artemis Missions with More SLS Rocket Engines

NASA Commits to Future Artemis Missions with More SLS Rocket Engines

NASA has awarded a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to manufacture 18 additional Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engines to support Artemis missions to the Moon.

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NASA CubeSat Will Shine a Laser Light on the Moon's Darkest Craters

NASA CubeSat Will Shine a Laser Light on the Moon's Darkest Craters

To support the next wave of human exploration, the Lunar Flashlight mission will look for potential ice hidden at the Moon's South Pole.

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NASA Scientists Tapped to Mature More Rugged Seismometer System to Measure Moonquakes

NASA Scientists To Make Seismometer System to Measure Moonquakes

NASA hasn’t measured moonquakes since Apollo astronauts deployed a handful of measuring stations at various locations on the lunar surface and discovered unexpectedly that Earth’s only natural satellite was far from seismically inactive.

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'Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload' challenge seeks tiny designs for the moon

'Honey, I Shrunk the NASA Payload' challenge seeks tiny designs for the moon

"Smaller payloads are game-changing."

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Launch Complex 39B prepared to support Artemis I

Launch Complex 39B prepared to support Artemis I | Aerotech News & Review

A legacy of the Apollo Program and shuttle era, Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the site of NASA’s return to the Moon and is now ready for Artemis I—an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back.

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Elon Musk shows off Starship prototype's rocket engine ahead of test fire (photo)

Elon Musk shows off Starship prototype's rocket engine ahead of test fire (photo)

The single Raptor engine looks pretty lonely.

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ESA will provide Eropean Service Module for Artemis 1

Artemis 1

The first mission for Orion and the European Service Module will send the spacecraft beyond the Moon and back. This mission called Artemis-1 (formerly Exploration Mission-1) will not carry a crew but will instead be controlled from the ground.

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Japan designs lunar rover as US plots return to moon

Japan will develop a manned moon rover as the country plays an important role in U.S. President Donald Trump's ambitious mission to return American astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024.

The rover forms a major part of Tokyo's participation in the Artemis program, Nikkei has learned. Japan also will provide an unmanned space vehicle now under development to ferry supplies to the planned Gateway lunar orbital station, which will be central to the moon mission.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has determined that data from joint study with the Indian Space Research Organization can be applied to the rover. JAXA also is conducting moon rover research with Toyota Motor.

Japan designs lunar rover as US plots return to moon

JAXA's planned cargo vehicle to resupply Gateway station in satellite's orbit

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The Moon is back in vogue and it will soon be crowded there, in its orbit for sure. In the orbit of the Moon are now:
- LRO probe (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) from NASA
- Chinese microsatellite "Longjiang-2" and relay satellite "Quetqiao" and that is not the whole list. In 2020 - the Chang'e-5 mission with a returnable module to Earth, which will deliver several kilograms of lunar soil for new research and discoveries.