October 2026
After the applause What Artemis II really means
... be too late for a sprint to the finish line. Moreover, the promised one-mission-per-annum of the Artemis programme is not enough to make us, in Elon Musk’s words, a spacefaring civilisation. Whether or not it’s enough to beat China to the Moon...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... civil exploration and use of outer space. International space agencies that join NASA in the Artemis programme will do so by executing bilateral Artemis Accords, which will describe a “shared vision for principles, grounded in the Outer Space Treaty...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... Space Launch System (SLS) - and sets the iconic plastic bricks in the context of the real-world Artemis programme. Much has changed at Florida’s launch sites since the halcyon days of the Moon launches and NASA...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment), which will aid NASA’s Artemis programme, is being overseen by Advanced Space LLC, a leading commercial space solutions company. Launching on an Electron rocket...
15 June 2022
NASA counts on ESA cooperation for lunar exploration
... press conference that NASA was “counting on cooperation with ESA” to propel exploration of the Moon through the Artemis programme. “The European Service Module is the powerhouse of the Orion spacecraft, providing our astronauts with in-space...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... of political power, rather than the application of military power. One such demonstration might be to streamline NASA’s Artemis programme to a simplified architecture that might actually achieve its stated goal to beat China back to the Moon. That...
