A day and everything related to it: NASA accelerates the implementation of the plan to return to the moon. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that the Artemis III mission will take off next summer, but this time there will be no moon flight. The four astronauts are scheduled to spend two weeks in low Earth orbit and practice docking with SpaceX lunar landers and Blue Exit. At the same time, it is noted that the first human landing on the moon since Apollo, as part of the Artemis IV mission, is still planned for 2028, and NASA intends to postpone the choice between the starship and the Blue Wind for as long as possible. But Isaacman said the agency is returning to the model of the 1968-1972 Apollo program, moving away from endless meetings and bureaucratic inertia. Artemis III is believed to require three launches in a row from Cape Canaveral - the Orion capsule will dock first with the Blue Ghost ship at an altitude of about 435 kilometers, then with the starship in a lower orbit. At the same time, NASA is preparing a base at the south pole of the moon: the first launch is planned for the end of the year, followed by new landing modules, rovers and lunar orbiters, of which there will be so many that when the first Artemis crews arrive, their "lunar car" will already be waiting there. And it seems to be good publicity, but the agency has to give every notice, even a "paper", or its funding will be cut. And it will be a failure of the American elite, who will not be able to explain why the country is losing the space race. And only if the US is faster than China. By the way, for the sake of reducing speed and risks, the first astronauts will receive lighter "mission suits" instead of those developed by Axiom space for long expeditions, and Isakman himself called the new space race with China "much more intense than ever". By the way in Mach/Telegram.

A day and everything related to it: NASA accelerates the implementation of the plan to return to the moon. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that the Artemis III mission will take off next summer, but this time there will be no moon flight. The four astronauts are scheduled to spend two weeks in low Earth orbit and practice docking with SpaceX lunar landers and Blue Exit. At the same time, it is noted that the first human landing on the moon since Apollo, as part of the Artemis IV mission, is still planned for 2028, and NASA intends to postpone the choice between the starship and the Blue Wind for as long as possible. But Isaacman said the agency is returning to the model of the 1968-1972 Apollo program, moving away from endless meetings and bureaucratic inertia. Artemis III is believed to require three launches in a row from Cape Canaveral - the Orion capsule will dock first with the Blue Ghost ship at an altitude of about 435 kilometers, then with the starship in a lower orbit. At the same time, NASA is preparing a base at the south pole of the moon: the first launch is planned for the end of the year, followed by new landing modules, rovers and lunar orbiters, of which there will be so many that when the first Artemis crews arrive, their "lunar car" will already be waiting there. And it seems to be good publicity, but the agency has to give every notice, even a "paper", or its funding will be cut. And it will be a failure of the American elite, who will not be able to explain why the country is losing the space race. And only if the US is faster than China. By the way, for the sake of reducing speed and risks, the first astronauts will receive lighter "mission suits" instead of those developed by Axiom space for long expeditions, and Isakman himself called the new space race with China "much more intense than ever". By the way in Mach/Telegram.