Auf den Punkt gebracht: Die Artemis-III-Mission der NASA wird frühestens Ende 2027 starten | SpaceX und Blue Origin teilen der NASA mit, dass ihre Mondlander Ende 2027 für Artemis III bereit sein werden.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/put-it-in-pencil-nasas-artemis-iii-mission-will-launch-no-earlier-than-late-2027/
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>NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told lawmakers on Monday that SpaceX and Blue Origin, the agency’s two lunar lander contractors, say they could have their spacecraft ready for the next Artemis mission in Earth orbit in late 2027, somewhat later than NASA’s previous schedule.
>This mission, Artemis III, will not fly to the Moon. Instead, NASA will launch an Orion capsule with a team of astronauts to rendezvous and potentially dock with one or both landers in Earth orbit. The details of the Artemis III flight plan remain under review, with key questions about the orbit’s altitude and the configuration of the Space Launch System rocket still unanswered.
>A mission to low-Earth orbit, just a few hundred miles in altitude, may not require NASA to use up an SLS upper stage that is already built and in storage, saving the unit for the following Artemis mission to attempt a landing on the Moon. A launch into a higher orbit would require the upper stage, but it would allow NASA to perform tests in an environment more similar to the Moon. NASA is buying a new commercial upper stage, the Centaur V from United Launch Alliance, to pair with the SLS rocket after flying the last of the rocket’s existing upper stages.
>Also in question is which of the landers—SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon—Artemis III will attempt to link to in space, or if NASA will try to incorporate both landers into the flight plan, assuming they are ready. Two months ago, Isaacman announced Artemis III would no longer land at the Moon’s south pole. The original Artemis III mission profile would have tried to accomplish too much. With that plan, the first time humans docked with and boarded a Starship or Blue Moon spacecraft would have been near the Moon, a quarter-million miles and several days away from Earth.
>Instead, Artemis III will be a mission akin to Apollo 9, which tested the Apollo lunar lander in Earth orbit four months before Apollo 11’s historic landing at the Sea of Tranquility with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. If something goes wrong in Earth orbit, the Artemis III astronauts will be minutes or hours from home, not days.
Who would have guessed… None of the landing systems provided by SpaceX or Blue reached flight worthiness.
Artemis program is a gift that keeps on giving
“to rendezvous and potentially dock”
Would all the disruption to Artemis III be worth it if there is no docking at all?
SpaceX doesn’t seem on track to deliver anything beyond an orbiting hollow can by 2027. Assuming they get one to actually orbit. Missing anything that resembles a life support system, on-orbit power generation, or the necessary refueling infrastructure, I give SpaceX the same odds to deliver in 2027 as I give Tesla after 10 years of promising those self-driving taxis.
Late 2027 means 2029 and we all know it
This is a genuine question and I’m not trying to start shit, I just don’t know how government contracts work. If these companies don’t produce working landers by a certain date, do they keep receiving more funding as the date gets pushed back? Assuming they can convince (lobby) the government to do so.
Why so slow? This is just going to be pushed further and further back, delaying a moon landing, IF it ever happens, and what of the expected budget cuts???
What are the chances they’ll rush this so it happens under the current administration vs a subsequent one? They’d surely never do something like that. Right?
If SpaceX and Blue Origin aren’t able to fly mid-2027, who told Issacman that they could? They’ve completely overturned the existing plan for a new plan that’s already slipping by half a year when it was announced only 1 month ago?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[BO](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq04ir „Last usage“)|Blue Origin (*Bezos Rocketry*)|
|[CRS](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oipy4le „Last usage“)|[Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA](http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/)|
|[EUS](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oipzzbb „Last usage“)|Exploration Upper Stage|
|[FAA](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq5qto „Last usage“)|Federal Aviation Administration|
|[HLS](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq8orh „Last usage“)|[Human Landing System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_System) (Artemis)|
|[LEM](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq77ib „Last usage“)|(Apollo) [Lunar Excursion Module](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module) (also Lunar Module)|
|[LEO](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq7ln9 „Last usage“)|Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)|
| |Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)|
|[N1](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq80ek „Last usage“)|Raketa Nositel-1, Soviet super-heavy-lift („Russian Saturn V“)|
|[QA](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq8j7i „Last usage“)|Quality Assurance/Assessment|
|[SLS](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq8b6y „Last usage“)|Space Launch System heavy-lift|
|[SRB](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq8bu0 „Last usage“)|Solid Rocket Booster|
|[STS](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq5qto „Last usage“)|Space Transportation System (*Shuttle*)|
|Jargon|Definition|
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|[Raptor](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq8orh „Last usage“)|[Methane-fueled rocket engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)) under development by SpaceX|
|[Starlink](/r/Space/comments/1sxwvr3/stub/oiq1xfb „Last usage“)|SpaceX’s world-wide satellite broadband constellation|
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Calling it, Artemis will be cancelled. Without the lunar gateway the profile of later missions will not work. Landing at a surface base instead of docking with gateway is a good goal, but maintaining a base off world has never been done before and the spending required to certify and achieve it is an order of magnitude greater than an ISS in lunar orbit.
A base that has not been funded or designed.
Not having a gateway in orbit makes it even more difficult, as any abort from the surface either requires a direct ascent lander capable of returning to earth with no other support or a permenant uncrewed and unsupported artemis capsule in orbit on its own, Also something that has never been done.
I might be wrong, I hope I am wrong, but the choice here is a massive undertaking, achieving new science never done before and topping any previous feat of human engineering and
exploration
Or cancelling it
From October 1968 to 1972, the US launched humans into space 10 times!!!! With 9 of them making it to the moon.
9 times to the moon in just over 3 years.
Having been following all this since the Constellation program, the lander is the real boondoggle of the whole thing. We can criticize SLS, but at the end of the day the far bigger grift has consistently been the lander. Companies have continuously used the lander contracts to take millions without having to actually produce anything, and escaped scrutiny because Ares and later SLS weren’t ready yet. Now it’s been over 20 years, SLS has flown twice and these companies have not shown any reliable prototype, let alone a finished product.
This sub Reddit comments are so low quality it’s incredible
Also wasn’t there something about the space suits still being even more behind schedule than the landers?