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spaceflight programme
Close ✕Artemis Program
NASA's programme to return crews to the Moon and establish sustained lunar operations, directed by Space Policy Directive 1 in December 2017 and named Artemis in 2019.
No recorded place · 2017–present
Lunar programme
AgencyNASA
Span2017–
Missions4 · 0 with a surface position
GoalReturn crews to lunar space and, in a later mission of the programme, to the surface near the south pole.
Connections
- is motivates target of of Lunar Water Ice — Water is the reason Artemis goes to the pole rather than the equator: drinking water, breathable oxygen, shielding and hydrogen–oxygen propellant that would otherwise have to be lifted out of Earth's gravity well — the resource case Apollo never had.
- is removed from architecture of Lunar Gateway — Gateway was the programme's planned orbital staging point until NASA paused it on 24 March 2026 in favour of lunar surface infrastructure, leaving the completed PPE and HALO modules unlaunched.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates