NASA's plans to orbit the moon and to eventually conduct another landing mission have been delayed again due to issues with the Orion crew capsule.
In just over a year and a half, the Artemis II mission will depart for the moon. And on board will be Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Hansen was at St. Hubert's Canadian Space Agency headquarters on Monday to talk about his upcoming mission and why it's so important for Canada. Global's Amanda Jelowicki reports. – Feb 5, 2024program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, pushing back the next two planned missions including the lunar landing .
The Artemis program was established by NASA during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration with the goal of returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since the U.S. space agency’s Apollo 17 mission. The program is intended to establish a lunar base as a step toward the more ambitious goal of human missions to Mars. The United States is estimated to spend roughly $93 billion on the program through 2025.
Nelson said he and other senior NASA officials concluded a meeting on the heat shield this week, facing a decision on whether to make Lockheed replace and upgrade the heat shield on the Artemis II Orion capsule, or fly the capsule with the existing heat shield design but change its reentry trajectory to ensure the same heat-cracking does not recur.
The follow-up Artemis II mission, a flight carrying astronauts around the moon in Orion but without a landing, has experienced delays, including one announced by Nelson in January pushing back its time table to September 2025. Nelson on Thursday said it would be further delayed until April 2026.The Artemis III mission is planned as the lunar landing. Nelson in January said that mission was pushed back to September 2026. Nelson said this will now be in mid-2027.
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