Artemis¶
Page: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/ (title "Moon to Mars | NASA's Artemis
Program"). No date of its own; its newest news item is the 30 September 2026 PRISM release. Fetched
2026-10-01T18:39:10Z. File: sources/moon-base/nasa-gov-humans-in-space-artemis.md.
Summary. NASA's Artemis hub page: one paragraph per mission from Artemis I to V, then a tour of the program's parts (Orion, SLS, Exploration Ground Systems, landers, suits and rovers, CLPS, Gateway, partners, the Artemis Accords, science, Mars). The mission paragraphs match the Ignition material. The Gateway paragraph does not: it still calls Gateway "central to the NASA-led Artemis missions", where the Ignition release pauses it "in its current form".
Key points¶
- Mission sequence ("Missions"):
| Mission | The page says |
|---|---|
| Artemis I | Uncrewed SLS and Orion test flight, November 2022 |
| Artemis II | Launched April 2026, "a nearly 10-day voyage around the Moon", "the first crewed flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft"; crew Wiseman, Glover, Koch and CSA's Hansen; "252,756 miles from Earth" |
| Artemis III | "Demonstration mission in low Earth orbit, planned for 2027, to evaluate one or both commercial human landing systems developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin", testing "rendezvous and docking operations between Orion and the commercial lander systems" |
| Artemis IV | "NASA continues to target the first Artemis lunar landing for 2028, a date that has remained consistent since mid‑2025." Crew transfers "from Orion to a commercial human landing system". "Beginning with Artemis IV, NASA is standardizing the configuration of the SLS" |
| Artemis V | "NASA anticipates launching this lunar surface mission in 2028 and sustaining a cadence of one mission per year thereafter" |
- Cadence, against the Ignition release. The page's "one mission per year thereafter" matches the release's "at least one surface landing every year". The release adds that "beyond Artemis V" NASA will target "landings every six months" with commercial hardware (Ignition release). The page doesn't mention that, and the Users Guide's Phase 2 goal is "Semi-annual Crewed Missions" (Users Guide, p. 4).
- Gateway ("Deep Space Exploration"): "Humanity's first space station around the Moon. Gateway is central to the NASA-led Artemis missions … The small space station will be a multi-purpose outpost supporting lunar surface missions, science in lunar orbit, and human exploration further into the cosmos." The photo caption is dated 4 April 2025. The page is undated, so the newer-source rule can't be applied with certainty; the Ignition release (24 March 2026) is the dated statement (open question 79).
- Landers ("Delivering Crew, Cargo to the Lunar Frontier"): human landing systems "will safely carry Artemis astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface and back".
- Suits and rovers ("Mobility for Every Mission"): "The Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program serves as NASA's program to develop next-generation spacesuits, human-rated rovers, tools, and the spacewalk support systems". That is the program ADD Rev C names for the xEVA, LTV, Lunar Utility Rover and Pressurized Rover elements (Elements).
- SLS ("A Single Launch"): "the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly to the Moon in a single launch".
- No Moon Base text. The page links the Moon Base under "Discover More" but says nothing about it.
- Mars ("Moon to Mars"): "Mars remains our horizon goal for human exploration".
Related pages¶
Going back to the Moon · Human Landing System · Gateway · Space Launch System · Orion · Phases