04 February 2021
Three more service modules for Artemis to be built in Europe
.... With these European Service Modules – in addition to three already in production – ESA is ensuring NASA’s Artemis programme continues to develop a sustainable presence on and around the Moon in international partnership. The three modules will...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
..., NASA had already earmarked this region as the landing place for its Artemis III astronauts. Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis programme and the first to land astronauts on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... by the United States in 2020 with the intention of governing the planning and execution of the lunar-bound Artemis programme. Screenshot from a virtual reality tour of the Moon's South Pole created by NASA engineers to help Divergent pathways...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
...just before 11 am local time (1600 BST). The Artemis programme is planning to send humans back to the surface of...that caused today's scrub, there are two further launch opportunities in this Artemis 1 launch period - on Monday at 5:12 pm EDT (2212 BST...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to stump up $93 billion to finance the Artemis programme but prior to today’s planned launch NASA administrators insisted that Americans would find the cost to be justified...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...-astronaut configuration. Had this suggestion, outlined by Professor Norman Augustine at the time, been taken seriously the Artemis programme today might be much further ahead in schedule for a much lower cost. The question is: why was the...
