 An artist's picture of Orion spacecraft arriving the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (right) in lunar orbit. | |
| Named after | Apollo's twin sister Artemis |
|---|---|
| Founder | NASA |
| Purpose | Crewed lunar exploration |
Budget | $50 billion (2024; estimate) |
The Artemis program is an international human space-flight program.
The next flight, Artemis 3, is scheduled for no earlier than 2027.
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.
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. As well as NASA, the Artemis program work is done by companies and other international organisations like European Space Agency.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "NASA: Artemis Accords". nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on 16 May 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
