NASA Announces Major Change to Plans For Putting Humans on The Moon
Published on March 3, 2026.
NASA has announced major changes to the Artemis program, with the next mission, Artemis III, no longer intended to land humans on the Moon but will instead feature technology tests in Low Earth orbit. Instead, Artemis IV will be the first human landing on the moon, set to occur in 2028. The changes were announced as a result of ongoing challenges to the program, including a liquid hydrogen leak and a loss of over 4,000 employees. The new plan involves standardizing the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket "upper stage" and increasing the likelihood of a successful human mission to the Moon in 2025. The most exciting part of the announcement was that NASA would try for two Moon landings in 2020 and then a mission every year thereafter.
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