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The Artemis program is a NASA-led lunar exploration effort aimed at returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era and establishing a permanent lunar base. It was formally established by Space Policy Directive-1 in 2017. Beginning with Artemis V in late 2028, NASA plans approximately annual crewed lunar landings.
Artemis I launched on the 16th of November 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center at 01:47:44 Eastern Time. The uncrewed mission sent an Orion spacecraft on a path totaling more than 1.4 million miles around the Moon and back. It splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on the 11th of December 2022.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine named the program Artemis on the 16th of May 2019. The name comes from the goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology, who is the twin sister of Apollo, the name given to NASA's original 1960s lunar program.
A November 2021 audit by NASA's Office of Inspector General estimated the total cost of the Artemis program at about $93 billion through 2025. The White House requested an annual NASA budget of $25.2 billion tied to the program, with $3.7 billion specifically allocated to the Human Landing System.
NASA has targeted the lunar South Pole for the Artemis Base Camp, specifically the area near the adjacent Shackleton and de Gerlache craters. This region is favored because the floors of permanently shadowed craters there are believed to contain water ice. NASA identified 13 candidate landing regions in that area in 2022.
Artemis astronauts will use the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or AxEMU, developed by Axiom Space. By February 2026, the suit had passed internal reviews and the first flight unit was being assembled following testing at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. An in-orbit test is targeted for 2027, potentially on the Artemis III mission or aboard the International Space Station.