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Artemis program
An artist's picture of a spacecraft approaching a space station in orbit around the Moon, with the Earth visible in the distant background.
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
Legal status Ongoing
Purpose Crewed lunar exploration
Budget
 $50 billion (2024; estimate)

The Artemis program is an international human space-flight program. The goal is to return humans to the Moon by the year 2025. 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. 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. 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.

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  • Artemis Phase 1

    Planned missions of Artemis program

  • Altair-orion

    Artist's rendering of the lunar module (left) and space capsule of the Constellation program

  • Space Launch System (16525420976)

    Artist's impression of an early SLS launch

  • NASA Selects First Commercial Moon Landing Services for Artemis Program (47974872533)

    Models of the first three commercial robotic landers selected for CLPS. From left: Peregrine by Astrobotic Technology, Nova-C by Intuitive Machines, and Z-01 by OrbitBeyond.

  • VIPER lunar rover

    NASA's VIPER rover

  • SLS Configuration

    Planned evolution of the Space Launch System, the primary launch vehicle for Orion

  • KSC-20220318-PH-KLS01 0031

    SLS for Artemis 1 on its mobile launcher, getting ready for a wet dress rehearsal ahead of launch

  • ArtemisI Orion EMI Feb

    NASA's Orion spacecraft undergoing final tests.

  • Gateway Space Station Module Map

    A conceptual advanced Gateway depicting what Gateway could look like in the late 2020s.

  • 2024 Lunar Gateway concept art, March 2020

    Phase 1 early Gateway with Power and Propulsion Element (left), Habitation and Logistics Outpost (center foreground), and cargo spacecraft (center background) depicted

  • NASA and ESA's Lunar Gateway

    Gateway as of October 2020 which includes European, Japanese, and Russian modules

  • Xemu-eva-Artemis

    An artist's rendition of an Artemis astronaut wearing the xEMU spacesuit and xPLS life support backpack during an EVA on the Moon.

  • Artemis Base Camp

    A render of the Artemis Base Camp

  • NASA Foundation Surface Habitat

    A render of the Foundational Surface Habitat

  • NASA Habitable Mobility Platform

    NASA Habitable Mobility Platform based on the past Constellation Space Exploration Vehicle.

  • NASA Lunar Terrain Vehicle

    NASA's baseline Lunar Terrain Vehicle

  • Artemis HLS xEMU NASA

    xEMU suit for lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA)

  • Artemis Orion OCSS Suit NASA

    OCSS suit for launch and reentry

  • EFT-1 Orion recovery.5

    The Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean, following the Exploration Flight Test-1 mission

  • Artemis Phase 1

    Planned missions of Artemis program

  • The-Initial-Phase-Gateway-with-Orion,-an-HLS-and-a-logistics-module-docked

    Phase 1 Gateway with an Orion and HLS docked on Artemis 3

  • Artemis program astronauts lunar craterv2

    Concept of surface operations

  • Artemis I map October 2021

    Artemis I planned flight path

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Programa Artemis para niños

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