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Let’s talk about the Artemis program. The program is going to have 3 stages and is designed to once again land people on the moon. Artemis 1 launched on Nov. 2022 and circled the moon. This has already happened and the mission passed low orbit and the firmament.
“NASA
successfully launched Artemis 1 at 01:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) on November 16, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Check out the
amazing views of the moon rocket's debut with this image gallery. For a timeline of Artemis 1 achievements and milestones check out our
mission updates archive.
NASA's
Space Launch System (SLS) rocket took an uncrewed deep space exploration system — the Orion spacecraft — around the moon and back again in an effort to test the Orion module, SLS rocket as well as ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center, laying the foundations for subsequent missions within the
Artemis program.”
Artemis 1 laid the foundations for future lunar exploration and beyond.
www.space.com
Artemis 2 is slated to launch on April 2026 and will be a crewed mission that will circle the moon but not land. This is a crewed test.
Artemis 3 does not yet have a definite launch date but is slated to launch sometime after the middle of 2027. This will be a crewed mission that will land on the moon so people once again will walk on the moon surface.
Now what?