NASA revamps its Artemis program
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Elon Musk's SpaceX company has a contract to build the lander - which will be flown to the Moon on a SpaceX Starship rocket. But delays to the Starship rocket have led Nasa to ask SpaceX for a new streamlined plan to speed a return to the Moon.
NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land.
CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is revising its Artemis lunar exploration initiative with a new mission to dock one or both human lunar landing systems with a crewed Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) ahead of landing astronauts on the Moon. NASA also is ...
The changes announced today are very welcome news and put the agency in a much better position to successfully land without killing any astronauts.