NASA Plans To Launch Three Massive Rockets For The Artemis 3 Crewed Lunar Test Mission
Blue Origin, SpaceX and NASA are launching heavy-lift rockets within a short timeframe for the mission.
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Earlier this year, NASA made some major changes to its Artemis program that would push back the next crewed moon landing to 2028. Artemis 3 was supposed to be the agency's first crewed moon landing since the Apollo 17 in 1972, but under the overhauled program, it will now involve testing at least one moon lander instead. Now, the agency has revealed its detailed plans for Artemis 3, which will launch three spacecraft on three different heavy-lift rockets from Florida within the span of two weeks.
Artemis 3 will officially begin when Blue Origin launches the New Glenn with a test version of its Blue Moon Mark 2lander into low Earth orbit, about 273 miles above Earth's surface. After that, NASA will launch Space Launch System (SLS) with the Orion crew capsule...
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