NASA moves moon mission: New start date causes excitement!

NASA moves moon mission: New start date causes excitement!

Cape Canaveral, USA - NASA moved the manned moon landing of the Artemis 3 mission to mid-2027. Originally scheduled for 2025, the appointment was previously postponed to 2026. NASA administrator Bill Nelson emphasized the security of the astronauts: "We do not fly before we are not ready", as on the website of kleinezeitung.at reported. The preparatory mission Artemis 2, which was scheduled for September 2025, is now also postponed by one year.

The Artemis missions form a central component of the NASA program to explore the moon and serve as a preliminary stage for future Mars missions. The upcoming flights, including Artemis 1, in which the unmanned Orion capsule successfully circumnavigated the moon, have already managed a number of challenges, such as technical problems with the capsule heat shield. The Orion capsule, which was developed for the Artemis missions, is made by Lockheed Martin and can transport up to four astronauts, as is explained on wikipedia.org . After rejected schedules, the spaceship should be tested in unmanned flights since 2014.

With the shifts, the entire schedule of the Artemis program is at risk, especially since the focus is also on international exchange in order to integrate European astronauts on these missions. Nevertheless, the Orion mission remains a central point of the American space strategy, which in the long term also has a creation on Mars.