This deceleration allows NASA to pinpoint Orion's landing near the coastline, making it easier to recover the spacecraft's crew. Artemis 1 was NASA's first attempt at a skip reentry with a human ...

The crew would transfer to Orion and fly it home to Earth for splashdown. The astronauts for Artemis-III will be selected later this year while the landing sites will be chosen after NASA ...

The SLS/Orion launch system currently works ... If Starship is also ready, we can conduct the Artemis 3 mission, landing a crew on the Moon in 2027. Otherwise, we will scrap functional hardware ...

NASA is studying the addition of an Orion rendezvous demonstration to the Artemis 2 test flight to reduce overall mission risks to the subsequent Artemis 3 lunar landing from first-time operations.

And Artemis 3, a crewed moon landing that had been targeted for late 2026, is now scheduled for mid-2027. The extra time is needed primarily to finish prepping the Orion capsule for its first-ever ...

They will travel inside a spacecraft called Orion, specially designed to protect human crew members and experiments in space. NASA, via Associated Press In November 2022, NASA launched the Artemis ...

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, or ASAP, has called on NASA to reevaluate its plans for the Artemis missions . Members ...

Artemis 1 was an uncrewed mission that sent NASA’s Orion capsule around the moon and back to Earth without landing. Artemis 2, scheduled for 2026, will send astronauts on a similar mission to ...