- NASA has planned to land American astronauts, including the first woman and the next man, on the Moon by 2024 under Artemis programme.
- Through the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration programme, NASA will use innovative new technologies and systems to explore more of the Moon than ever before.
Objectives
- Objectives of the the Artemis program is to:
- Demonstrate new technologies, capabilities, and business approaches needed for future exploration including Mars,
- Establish American leadership and a strategic presence on the Moon while expanding U.S. global economic impact,
- Broaden commercial and international partnerships,
- Inspire a new generation and encourage careers in STEM.
- NASA’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit. Astronauts will dock Orion at the Gateway where they will live and work around the Moon. The crew will take expeditions from the Gateway to the surface of the Moon in a new human landing system before returning to the orbital outpost. Crew will ultimately return to Earth aboard Orion. Gateway 2024 Artist Concept Gateway 2024 Artist Concept Credits:
Programme Phases
- NASA is working toward launching Artemis 1 in 2020, an uncrewed flight to test the SLS and Orion spacecraft together.
- Artemis 2, the first SLS and Orion flight with crew, is targeted for launch in 2022.
- NASA will land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 on the Artemis 3 mission and about once a year thereafter.
- NASA has planned to explore the entire surface of the Moon with human and robotic explorers.
- US space agency will send astronauts to new locations, starting with the lunar South Pole.
- At the Moon, astronauts will Find and use water and other critical resources needed for long-term exploration, investigate the Moon’s mysteries and learn more about our home planet and the universe and learn how to live and operate on the surface of another celestial body where astronauts are just three days from home.
