TBD - NASA - SLS Block 1 - Artemis II - LC-39B - Kennedy Space Center - Space Affairs Livestream
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NASA announced Tuesday, January 9, 2024, updates to its Artemis campaign that will establish the foundation for long-term scientific exploration at the Moon, land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, and prepare for human expeditions to Mars for the benefit of all. To safely carry out these missions, agency leaders are adjusting the schedules for Artemis II and Artemis III to allow teams to work through first-time developments, operations, and integration challenges.
NASA will target September 2025 for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission around the Moon, and September 2026 for Artemis III, which is planned to land the first astronauts near the lunar South Pole. Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for 2028.
Ensuring crew safety is the primary driver for the Artemis II schedule changes. As the first Artemis flight test with crew aboard the Orion spacecraft, the mission will test critical environmental control and life support systems required to support astronauts. NASA’s testing to qualify components to keep the crew safe and ensure mission success has uncovered issues that require additional time to resolve. Teams are troubleshooting a battery issue and addressing challenges with a circuitry component responsible for air ventilation and temperature control.
Artemis 2 (officially Artemis II) is the second scheduled mission of NASA's Artemis program and the first scheduled crewed mission of NASA's Orion spacecraft, currently planned to be launched by the Space Launch System (SLS) in September 2025.
The crewed Orion spacecraft will perform a lunar flyby test and return to Earth. This is planned to be the first crewed spacecraft to travel beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Formerly known as Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the mission was renamed after the introduction of the Artemis program. The crewed mission initially intended to collect samples from a captured asteroid in lunar orbit by the now-canceled robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission. This is also planned to be the first crewed launch from LC-39B since STS-116.
The Artemis 2 mission plan objective is to send four astronauts in the first crewed Orion MPCV Spacecraft into a lunar flyby for a maximum of 21 days using the Block 1 variant of the Space Launch System. The mission profile is a multi-trans lunar injection (MTLI), or multiple departure burns, and includes a free return trajectory from the Moon. The Orion spacecraft will be sent to a high Earth orbit for roughly 42 hours. During this time, the crew will perform various checkouts of the spacecraft's life support systems and an in-space rendezvous and proximity operations demonstration using the spent Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) as a target. When Orion reaches perigee again, it will fire its main engine to complete the TLI maneuver, sending it to a lunar free return trajectory before returning to Earth.
The 2017 Exploration Mission-2 was a projected single-launch mission of a Space Launch System (SLS) Block 1B with an Exploration Upper Stage, lunar Block 1 Orion spacecraft, and a payload insertion of 50.7 t (112,000 lb). The plan was to rendezvous with an asteroid previously placed in lunar orbit by the robotic Asteroid Redirect Mission and have astronauts perform spacewalks and gather samples. After the cancellation in April 2017 of the Asteroid Redirect Mission, an eight-day mission was proposed with a crew of four astronauts sent on a free return trajectory around the Moon. Another proposal suggested in 2017 was to take four astronauts aboard Orion on an 8-to-21-day trip around the Moon to deliver the first element of the Deep Space Gateway. In March 2018, it was decided to launch the first Gateway module on a commercial launch vehicle.
The primary crew of Artemis II was introduced to the public in a live event on April 3, 2023, and consists of:
Ron Wiseman (NASA) - Commander
Victor Glover (NASA) - Pilot
Christina Hammock Koch (NASA) - Mission Specialist
Jeremy Hansen (CSA) - Mission Specialist
Later missions will have international crews, including European and Asian astronauts.
The given date here is TBD and related only to the Moon Phases in September 2025. Originally, Artemis II was scheduled for May 2024, then shifted to the end of 2024, and now to September 2025.
NASA is trying to hold 12 months between the Artemis missions, so it is expected that Artemis III (the first Moon Landing) will not happen before September 2026.
Maybe we will plan our tour "A Dream is Alive," which we ran from 2002 to 2011, again for this launch event, even though it was always tough to set up voyage plans to the East Coast of the United States during the Space Shuttle area. Space Shuttles never fly just in time. We will decide later, depending on interest, requests, and possibilities.
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