Are we ever going to make it back to the Moon?
The documents reveal that NASA is dealing with increasingly tight budget constraints, which will likely result in the agency's Artemis III mission — the first crewed mission to the lunar surface — being pushed back from its original 2025 date.
In other words, the original goal of reaching the lunar surface by 2024, as set out by the Trump administration, is starting to feel like a distant dream.
Under the "content" schedule, the Artemis III mission wouldn't launch until 2026, with a rover making its way to the lunar surface not before 2032, as opposed to the currently projected 2030. The agency is also considering an interim mission between Artemis III and Artemis IV — the projected launch of NASA's Gateway, a space station in lunar orbit — to fill an otherwise three-year gap, according toBut there's one problem with launching the Gateway: the rocket configuration of the agency's Space Launch System , called Block 1B, is far from ready.
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