03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
...just before 11 am local time (1600 BST). The Artemis programme is planning to send humans back to the surface of...that caused today's scrub, there are two further launch opportunities in this Artemis 1 launch period - on Monday at 5:12 pm EDT (2212 BST...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
...as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to stump up $93 billion to finance the Artemis programme but prior to today’s planned launch NASA administrators insisted that Americans would find the cost to be justified...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...-astronaut configuration. Had this suggestion, outlined by Professor Norman Augustine at the time, been taken seriously the Artemis programme today might be much further ahead in schedule for a much lower cost. The question is: why was the...
15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
.... While the prospect of any additional money to boost the agency's Artemis mission should be a good thing, the source of that funding is...request to shift funds from the Pell Grants to the Artemis programme have yet to be approved by Congress, so it ...
01 November 2019
Can Artemis deliver the payload it seeks from the Moon?
As NASA ploughs ahead with returning to the Moon by 2024, a key aspect of the Artemis mission will be to bring something back with them - moon rocks. Lunar samples are worth their weight in ...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...as a central piece in the development of future crewed Mars missions. Numerous initiatives - such as the NASA-led Artemis programme and the Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project - have started to materialise. Under these...
