NASA Cancels Artemis III's Crewed Landing (www.extremetech.com)

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Last week, NASA announced that its Artemis II mission will be pushed to April at the earliest, due to issues with its helium tanks. Now, it's broken the news that the Artemis III follow-up mission will totally cancel its original goal of landing astronauts on the Moon.

Instead, Artemis III—now scheduled to take place in 2027—will be another crewed flight without a landing phase, followed by Artemis IV, a crewed lander mission, hopefully in 2028.

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[-] Novis@lemdro.id 7 points 6 months ago

Happy that they're being cautious with all this. Don't want any more deaths on NASA's watch. But this is also pretty humiliating. I also feel for those astronauts cause they were probably REALLY looking forward to the trip.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Indeed. I’m glad they didn’t let their dick measuring w/r/t China get the better of them.

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