For NASA and its astronauts, the moon isn’t any farther away when it comes to distance, however it’s slipping additional into the long run.
Officers on the area company introduced on Tuesday that Artemis II, the primary American mission to ship astronauts near the moon in additional than 50 years, won’t happen late this yr, as had been scheduled.
They set a September 2025 date for the mission, which is able to take astronauts across the moon with out touchdown there.
The crew of that mission will include three NASA astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch — and one Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen.
The delay in Artemis II additionally pushes again the following mission, Artemis III, which is to take two astronauts to the floor of the moon close to its south pole. That may now be no sooner than September 2026.
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