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Artemis programAn artist's picture of Orion spacecraft arriving the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (right) in lunar orbit. |
Named after | Apollo's twin sister Artemis |
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Founder | NASA |
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Purpose | Crewed lunar exploration |
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Budget | $50 billion (2024; estimate) |
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The Artemis program is an international human space-flight program.[1]
As of 2024's second quarter, the next flight is scheduled for, no earlier than 2025's third quarter; An Orion spaceship is supposed to orbit the Moon before returning to Earth. A crew is supposed to be onboard.
The Artemis program began in December 2017. It was created by bringing together many programs that had been started since 2009 by the United States as it tries to return to the moon.
- Artemis 1 flew in December 2022 without crew.
- Artemis 2 is planned for 2025.
- Artemis 3 is supposed to happen in 2026, according to media (2023's first quarter).[2]
- Artemis 4
- Artemis 5
- Artemis 6, earliest possible launch is 2031; An Airlock module is being built as of 2024.[3]
The goal is to return humans to the Moon by the year 2025.[4][5][6] It will involve the first woman and thirteenth man to land on the moon. It is led by the United States and planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It will be the first lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972, which was the final lunar mission of the Apollo program.
As a result of Artemis, the United States hopes that there will always be humans on the moon. One day the program might take humans to Mars and other places in the Solar System.[7] As well as NASA, the Artemis program work is done by companies and other international organisations like European Space Agency.
Spacecraft missions to the Moon |
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Active missions | Orbiters |
- ARTEMIS
- CAPSTONE
- Chang'e 5-T1 (service module)
- Danuri
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Queqiao relay satellite (relay satellite at L2)
- Queqiao-2 relay satellite
- Tiandu-1
- Tiandu-2
- ICUBE-Q
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Landers | |
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Rovers | |
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Flybys | |
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Past missions | Crewed landings | |
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Orbiters | |
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Impactors |
- LCROSS
- Luna 2
- Moon Impact Probe
- Ranger 4
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
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Landers | |
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Rovers | |
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Sample return | |
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Failed landings | |
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Flybys | |
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Planned missions | Artemis |
- Artemis 2 (2025)
- Lunar Gateway
- Artemis 3 (2026)
- Artemis 4 (2028)
- Artemis 5 (2029)
- Artemis 6 (2030)
- Artemis 7 (2031)
- Artemis 8 (2032)
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CLPS |
- VIPER (Nov 2024)
- IM-2 (2024)
- Blue Ghost (2024)
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Luna-Glob |
- Luna 26 (2027)
- Luna 27 (2028)
- Luna 28 (2030)
- Luna 29 (2030s)
- Luna 30 (2030s)
- Luna 31 (2030s)
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CLEP |
- Chang'e 7 (2026)
- Chang'e 8 (2028)
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Others |
- Hakuto-R M2 (2024)
- DESTINY+ (2025)
- Beresheet 2 (2025)
- ispace M3 (2026)
- Lunar Pathfinder (2026)
- Cislunar Explorers (2020s)
- CU-E3 (2020s)
- MoonRanger (2020s)
- International Lunar Research Station (late 2020s)
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Proposed missions | Robotic |
- Lunar Polar Exploration Mission
- ALINA
- Artemis-7
- Blue Moon
- BOLAS
- Garatéa-L
- ISOCHRON
- LunaNet
- Lunar Crater Radio Telescope
- McCandless
- Moon Diver
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Crewed |
- DSE-Alpha
- Boeing Lunar Lander
- Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander
- Lunar Orbital Station
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Exploration programs | |
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Related |
- Colonization of the Moon
- Google Lunar X Prize
- List of lunar probes
- List of missions to the Moon
- List of artificial objects on the Moon
- List of species that have landed on the Moon
- Lunar resources
- Apollo 17 Moon mice
- Moon landing conspiracy theories
- Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings
- Apollo 11 anniversaries
- List of crewed lunar landers
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- Missions are ordered by launch date. Crewed missions are in italics.
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