2023-12-04 19:15:35
Initially scheduled for 2025, NASA announces that its Artemis III mission will be slightly delayed. This is due to various complications in the development of the space capsule or even the astronauts’ suits. The crew of the next lunar mission is not expected to take off until 2027 or 2028.
NASA’s Artemis III mission, intended to send humans back to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, will not take place, as planned, at the end of 2025. It is expected to be delayed by around two or three years, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation and investigation agency of the US Congress responsible for controlling public accounts. This points in particular to a delay in the development of the Orion spacecraft, which must transport astronauts around the Lune, as well as its lander, which should take them to the satellite. On the other hand, NASA must also perfect numerous equipment, such as space suitselements obviously essential to the success of the Artemis III mission.
These delays can be explained in particular by the fact that NASA delegates a lot on this mission. The manufacture of the lander (which will allow astronauts to reach the Moon then return to Orion before returning to Earth) was entrusted to SpaceX and that of the suits to Axiom Space. Faced with these challenges, NASA therefore has no other choice but to delay its mission and it will therefore likely be necessary to wait until 2027, or even 2028, to see a human again set foot on the lunar surface.
As a reminder, after a test phase without a crew on board then a first rotational flight around the Moon, the Artemis III exploration mission must take off in December 2025. Note that, for the first time in the history of missions lunar, at least one woman will be part of the crew.
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