NASA's Artemis 'Course Correction' Boosts Moonward Momentum: Key Details Still Maturing
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Key Points:
- NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the Artemis program to increase launch frequency to about one SLS mission every 10 months, reduce technical risks, and establish a sustainable lunar exploration cadence with the first crewed lunar landing targeted for 2028.
- The revised plan reconfigures Artemis III as an integrated systems test flight in low Earth orbit, postponing the first crewed lunar landing to Artemis IV in early 2028, and cancels the previously planned Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) and Block 1B upgrades in favor of a standardized "near Block 1" configuration using ULA's Centaur V upper stage.
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