Artemis

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA's ...

The crew's 10-day journey around the moon and back in 2024 is a crucial step toward returning Americans to the moon on a sustained basis.

China is also aiming to send astronauts to the moon in the coming years. In an interview, Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who retired in 2013 after three trips to space, compared space travel to the early days of aviation. Dennis Tito, an entrepreneur who was the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station in 2001, and his wife, Akiko, have booked seats on a separate Starship trip around the moon. The Artemis III mission requires the use of Starship — the giant spacecraft being developed by SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company — to take the two astronauts from a distant lunar orbit to the surface. “A lot of things conspired to stop the Apollo program and to keep us from going back for quite a while.” Once the race was won, interest in the moon by the public, politicians and even NASA waned. As the name of the mission indicates, Artemis II will be the second in NASA’s Artemis program. NASA is currently aiming for that first moon landing to occur in late 2025, but the NASA inspector general has predicted the mission would slip to 2026 or later. I love the idea of going out past the moon.” Hansen, as a Canadian, the first non-American to travel that far. Koch will be the first woman to venture beyond low-Earth orbit, and Mr. Humans have not ventured more than a few hundred miles off the planet since the return of Apollo 17, NASA’s last moon mission, in 1972.

The group will fly on NASA's Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon for the first time 50 years and ...

Artemis I occurred last year, when NASA launched the uncrewed Orion on a test mission to space in November, sending the ship around the Moon and back on a 1.4-million-mile journey that lasted 25 and a half days. With the test flight finally under Orion's belt and its first crew named, space program officials are preparing for the second phase of Artemis, which is scheduled to take place in 2024. The mission will be the second phase of NASA's Artemis program. It's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the Moon. "Artemis II is more than a mission to the Moon and back. Wiseman and Glover both have taken flights to the International Space Station, and were both captains in the U.S.

(Washington, DC) Today, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren joined Space and Aeronatics ...

There is no substitute for human exploration, and in our quest for the Moon, the Artemis astronauts will develop new technologies, identify crucial resources, and further our understanding of the universe. I wish NASA and the Artemis II crew best of luck in their preparations for the Artemis II mission, and I look forward to watching NASA’s continued progress in sending humans back to the Moon and on to Mars.” NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) jointly announced that Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen are set to join the first crewed Artemis mission to fly around the Moon, with the potential to reach the furthest distance astronauts have ever traveled.

NASA on Monday named the first woman and the first African American ever assigned as astronauts to a lunar mission, introducing them as part of the ...

At its farthest distance from Earth, Artemis II is expected to reach a point more than 230,000 miles (370,000 km) away. He will be the first Black astronaut ever to be sent on a lunar mission. Hansen, an astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency, is a spaceflight rookie. Further crewed missions would follow about once a year. This is humanity's crew," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on stage. She will be joined by Victor Glover, 46, a U.S.

HOUSTON — NASA has named its first astronaut crew bound for the moon in more than 50 years. The space agency on Monday (April 3) announced the four ...

businessman and first "space tourist" Dennis Tito revealed his and his wife's intentions to fly on [SpaceX's second circumlunar mission](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101222a-dennis-tito-spacex-starship-moon.html). [first operational crewed spaceflight](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-050221a-spacex-crew-1-resilience-dragon-splashdown.html) (Crew-1) and logged 167 days on the ISS in 2021. [dearMoon project](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-091818a-spacex-maezawa-moon-mission.html), underwritten by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, named its [crew of eight artists](https://www.space.com/meet-dearmoon-crew-spacex-moon-mission) in December 2022. "We need to celebrate this moment in human history because Artemis II is more than a mission to the moon and it's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. During that 2019 stay, she was also one-half of the [first-ever all-female spacewalk](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101819a-first-all-female-spacewalk.html). "Human spaceflight is like a relay race and the baton has been passed generation to generation and from crew member to crew member, from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, Mir, space shuttle, International Space Station, commercial crew and and now the Artemis missions. The Artemis 2 crew will come within 6,479 miles (10,427 kilometers) of the lunar surface and travel 6,400 miles (10,300 km) beyond the far side of the moon. [four astronauts who will launch on its Artemis 2 mission](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-040323a-nasa-names-artemis-2-moon-crew.html) to fly around the moon. [Space Launch System](https://www.space.com/33908-space-launch-system.html) (SLS) rocket from Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [Artemis 2 SLS core stage](https://www.space.com/artemis-2-moon-rocket-core-stage-assembly-photo). [Johnson Space Center](https://www.space.com/17216-nasa-johnson-space-center.html) here in Houston. He will be the first non-American to leave Earth orbit and fly to [the moon](https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html).

These marvels represented a celebration of architectural prowess in the ancient world. However, the bulk of the list is Hellenistic in origin, like the Colossus ...

Greater in size once again, it was this third phase that cemented the status of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was not until the 19th century that a British expedition established the location of the temple. [Augustus](https://www.thecollector.com/augustus-roman-emperor/), the first emperor, made the city the main city of the province of Asia (instead of Pergamon), and the city enjoyed a boon, becoming incredibly prosperous and developing as a cultural center. The Hellenistic poet Callimachus, who was active in 3rd century BCE [Alexandria](https://www.thecollector.com/alexandria-ad-aegyptum/), attributed the worship of Artemis at Ephesus to the [Amazons](https://www.thecollector.com/amazons-greek-mythology-art/), the legendary warrior women. A rich religious diversity was one of the hallmarks of this cultural fluidity, and this is clear from the worship of Artemis at Ephesus. In the end, much of this fighting would prove futile, as vast swathes of the territory was conquered by the Romans. The city had a long tradition of education and intellect, however: it was the home of the philosopher [Heraclitus](https://www.thecollector.com/heraclitus-philosopher-facts-you-should-know/) in the 5th century BCE. A temple was first built on this site in the latter part of the 8th century BCE, although this structure was some way off the wonder that would later be erected here. However, the bulk of the list is Hellenistic in origin, like the [Colossus at Rhodes](https://www.thecollector.com/colossus-of-rhodes-ancient-wonder/) and the Pharos at Alexandria. [Didyma](https://www.thecollector.com/oracle-of-delphi/#:~:text=There%20were%20also%20oracles%20of%20Apollo%20as%20far%20afield%20as%20Didyma%20in%20Asia%20Minor%20and%20on%20the%20island%20of%20Delos.) was famous for its oracular shrine and was associated with Apollo, the brother of Artemis, who was worshipped at Ephesus. [Seven Wonders of the Ancient World](https://www.thecollector.com/7-wonders-ancient-world/). This vast sanctuary to the goddess was one of the canonical

The crew includes U.S. Navy Captain Reid Wiseman, who will serve as the mission commander; Victor Glover, who is the first Black astronaut to undertake a ...

The Artemis II mission is scheduled for launch in late 2024 and is a critical step towards NASA's goals of establishing a permanent human presence on and ...

[the moon since 1972](https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo-17/). [The Conversation](https://theconversation.com) under a Creative Commons license. While the Artemis program still has a way to go before humans set foot on the moon once again, the announcement of the Artemis II crew shows how NASA intends to get there in a diverse and collaborative way. [rounded out by a Canadian](https://theconversation.com/canadian-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-will-be-among-the-next-humans-to-fly-to-the-moon-201633), [Jeremy Hansen](https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp). With Koch and Glover on board, Artemis II is the first step in fulfilling that promise and moving toward the goal of inspiring future generations of space explorers. The crew of Artemis II is also quite diverse compared with the Apollo astronauts. He was the pilot for the Crew-1 mission, the first mission that used a SpaceX rocket and capsule to bring astronauts to the International Space Station, and served as a flight engineer on the ISS. allies and divide up the production of technologies and costs. Wiseman was also the chief of the U.S. [Reid Wiseman](https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/g-reid-wiseman/biography), a naval aviator and test pilot. [WATCH: NASA holds press conference after successful end of Artemis 1 mission](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-nasa-holds-press-conference-after-successful-end-of-artemis-1-mission) As part of this next era in lunar and space exploration, NASA has outlined a few clear goals.