NASA redirects Artemis moon mission program, postponing a planned astronaut landing

Key Highlights

• — NASA's plan to return humans to the moon is changing course.
• Space Meet the astronauts preparing to travel farther from Earth than any human before The space agency outlined a new path for its Artemis moon mission, designed to return humans to the moon using NASA's SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for the first time since the final Apollo lunar mission in 1972.
• The previous Artemis schedule got humans to the moon's surface after three missions — with additional trips planned after that.
• That process was already underway.
• NASA's Artemis I mission launched in November 2022, sending an uncrewed Orion space capsule on a trip around the moon and back.