2023-08-12 19:01:00
According to statements by a senior NASA official, Elon Musk’s company is considering the possibility of redefining its objectives for the Artemis 3 mission.
Objective of the Artemis program
The program Artemisdesigned by Nasa, aims to establish a sustainable human presence on the Moon in preparation for a possible mission to Mars. If the first mission, Artemis 1, successfully sent a spacecraft around the Moon in 2022, Artemis 2 is scheduled to accomplish the same feat with a crew on board by the end of 2024. Then, a year later, the mission Artemis 3 is scheduled to make a landing on the lunar surface, which would be a first since 1972, reports the site Huffingtonpost.fr.
A “different mission”
Only downside, uncertainties now hang over the mission schedule Artemis 3. During a press conference held on Tuesday, August 8, Jim Free, associate administrator at Nasa, mentioned that the contract date for Artemis 3 was in December 2025. However, he also mentioned the possibility of a “different mission “if major delays persist, especially SpaceX’s lander:”If we have these big delays, we wondered, can we do other missions, is there a possibility.“
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