The Artemis program was officially named and announced by NASA in May 2019, when Artemis III was intended to land “the first woman and next man” on the lunar South Pole in 2024. Since then, the uncrewed Artemis I test flight launched in 2022, and Artemis II is complete.

NASA sets 2028 moon landing goal while analyzing astronaut cells from AVATAR experiment. Researchers are comparing the crew's health to cells exposed to deep space.

By Joey Roulette COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 14 (Reuters) - After the safe return of four astronauts from a historic flyby of the moon last week, NASA is shifting focus to its next challenge: putting competing lunar landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin through a series of rigorous tests ahead of future crewed landings.

NASA will host a public event outlining plans to return astronauts to the moon and build a lunar base under President Donald Trump's space policy.

NASA and its contractors are in a sprint to prepare rockets, spacecraft and suits to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.

NASA targets the moon's south pole for a future base as Artemis III prepares to test critical docking maneuvers in Earth's orbit launching next year.

Over the past eight days, the world has watched four intrepid explorers leave Earth, fly around the Moon, and make spaceflight history. The moments of reverence, camaraderie, and bravery we’ve witnessed since the launch of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission have done wonders for my faith in humanity, but sadly, all good things must come to an end.

More than 50 years after Mark Agnew watched the first humans to ever walk on the Moon on his parents’ grainy black-and-white TV, he and his grandchildren gathered at the Chabot Space & Science Center in anticipation of