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Title: Nasa Announces Artemis III Mission No Longer Aims To Send Humans To
Moon

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/27/1...

Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission
to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with
technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
From a report: The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space
agency's recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman. Announcing the
changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce at least one new moon
flight before attempting to put humans back on the lunar surface for the
first time in more than half a century, in 2028. The new, more incremental
approach would give the Nasa team a chance to test flight and refine its
technology. As part of the changes, the Artemis II mission to fly humans
around the moon this year, without landing, would also be pushed back from
its latest scheduled launch on 6 March to 1 April at the earliest. "Everybody
agrees this is the only way forward," Isaacman told reporters at a news
conference. "I know this is how Nasa changed the world, and this is how Nasa
is going to do it again."

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