Forbes by Jamie Carter 7/22/2019
From Apollo 11 To Artemis 3: Here's NASA's Mission Timeline For Putting Humans Back On The Moon
“Houston, Shackleton Base here. Artemis 3 has landed.â€
In 2024, if all goes to plan, two astronauts will touchdown at the Moon’s South Pole; the first moonwalkers of the 21st century will step foot where no human has ever been before. The landing will also put the first woman on the Moon, and the next man. By then it will be 55 years since Apollo 11’s pioneering mission to land men on the moon and, just as poignantly, 52 years since Apollo 17’s late Gene Cernan was the last human to walk on the moon.
So why “Artemis 3� We know why it’s going to be called Artemis; that’s the name of the twin sister of Apollo, the goddess of Moon in ancient Greek religion and myth.
We also know it’s going to aim for Shackleton Crater at the lunar South Pole, where water ice is present. That could make a permanent moonbase possible. It's also the largest impact in the solar system.
Like the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, which built up and demonstrated their capabilities over a series of missions, Artemis will do the same, and details of the first three missions are already public.
Here’s the timeline for the Artemis program, which has the goal of returning two astronauts to the lunar surface “in a sustainable way†to prepare for sending astronauts to Mars for the first time ever.
What is Artemis 1?
When: 2021
Formerly known as Exploration Mission-1, the Artemis 1 mission will be an uncrewed flight of NASA’s Lockheed Martin-made Orion spacecraft, Orion’s European Service Module (ESM), and its Boeing-led Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. A three-week flight launching from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Artemis 1 will launch, orbit the Earth, then Orion and the ESM will travel to the Moon to an orbit that takes it from 62 miles above its surface to 40,000 miles beyond the Moon. Artemis 1 is designed to test all the hardware and operations. It will splashdown off Baja, California.
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