NASA's Artemis I mission successfully launches from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
In a press conference this afternoon, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that Artemis II — which will see Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and Americans Reid Weisman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover orbit the moon — has been moved from November 2025 to April 2026.NASA's Artemis I mission successfully launches from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022. NASA's ambitious Artemis program that will once again return humans to the moon is facing more delays.
The delays come following the Artemis I launch in 2022 which revealed some troubling findings. That mission saw an uncrewed Orion capsule orbit the moon for several days, conduct various experiments, and return home. At the press conference, NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy explained that, as the capsule re-entered the atmosphere in what is called a "skip entry" — where it dips in and out to gradually reduce velocity — heat accumulated in the shield's outer layer, trapping gases, leading to cracking and uneven shedding.
The plan includes keeping the existing heat shield design, but modifying the capsule's re-entry in order to reduce the heat the shield experiences.
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