October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... of the forthcoming Orion lunar flights, most likely Artemis IV, V and VI, via barter arrangements. The current Artemis programme (as of July 2025) is: Artemis I – uncrewed (completed 2022); Artemis II – three NASA astronauts, one CSA Canadian (2026...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
.... Those future agreements will describe legal provisions and lay out each country's specific contribution to the Artemis programme. In effect, the newly signed Accords will "establish norms of behavior and rules for space operations," Bridenstine...
23 January 2026
Back to the Moon with Artemis
... far flown only once (without a crew), on the Artemis I mission in November 2022. Clearly, if the Artemis programme as a whole is to be successful, the SLS must continue to perform. Following the Artemis II launch from Kennedy Space Center, Orion and...
10 January 2023
Artemis I - Return to the Moon
... text is a regurgitation of the author’s articles in Spaceflight magazine, but it’s a capable and informative summary. Assuming the Artemis programme continues to be funded and developed, one would expect to see similar small format books in the same...
16 January 2024
Artemis I - Return to the Moon
... text is a regurgitation of the author’s articles in Spaceflight magazine, but it’s a capable and informative summary. Assuming the Artemis programme continues to be funded and developed, one would expect to see similar small format books in the same...
02 September 2021
Long awaited SLS launch looks likely to slip to mid-2022
... newly built engines of the same design. SLS rockets amounted to $27.3 billion in projected costs to the Artemis programme through 2025, according to an estimate released by NASA’s OIG in February 2021. Auditors have repeatedly questioned management...
