15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
...quite. While the prospect of any additional money to boost the agency's Artemis mission should be a good thing, the source of that funding is...request to shift funds from the Pell Grants to the Artemis programme have yet to be approved by Congress, so ...
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... the delays. Now another damning report has suggesting its Artemis-1 programme in which the Space Launch System (SLS) ... in order to get SLS off the ground, means that the earliest Artemis-1 will be ready is June 2021. “In November 2018, within one ...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
As NASA ploughs ahead with returning to the Moon by 2024, a key aspect of the Artemis mission will be to bring something back with them - moon rocks. Lunar samples are worth their weight in ...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... it would not surprise me, if, for example, if we made a determination that the South Pole might be out of reach for Artemis III, which I’m not saying it is or isn’t, the question is, OK, if you’re going to go to the equatorial region again … how are...
04 May 2020
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines
...’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida where it will be integrated with other parts of the rocket and Orion for Artemis I. The Artemis program is the next step in human space exploration. It’s part of America’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach...
18 December 2019
US Senate suggests Artemis delay after requested funding halved
..., but a final agreement on funding for the agency’s programmes was not finalised. An additional $1.6 billion supplemental for Artemis was requested by the administration in a budget amendment back in May, which included $1.045 billion for human lunar...
