{"id":791773,"date":"2024-12-05T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791773"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:09:07","slug":"nasa-delays-artemis-ii-human-moon-mission-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791773","title":{"rendered":"NASA delays Artemis II human moon mission : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, in 2023 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Their mission to go around the moon has been delayed until at least April, 2026.
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The launch of NASA’s first human mission to the moon carrying three U.S. astronauts and one Canadian astronaut has been delayed once again, after a lengthy investigation into the heat shield used on the mission’s crew capsule.<\/p>\n

The Artemis II mission, which was targeting liftoff for late 2025, will now launch no earlier than April, 2026. The mission will send NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a trip around the moon and back, testing key systems of the Orion space capsule like its life support hardware.<\/p>\n