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StartupmacA closer look at the revised plans for the Artemis lunar lander, featuring a modular design with an extended stay habitat, a reusable ascent stage, and increased payload capacity.
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13NASA Announces Artemis III Crew and Ambitious Goals https://hackaday.com/2026/06/10/nasa-announces-artemis-iii-crew-and-ambitious-goals/
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NASA Announces Artemis III Crew and Ambitious Goals
KillBait NewsNASA Details Early Missions and Phased Deployment Plan for Its Lunar Base Program
📰 Original title: Las primeras misiones del proyecto de base lunar de la NASA
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NASA Details Early Missions and Phased Deployment Plan for Its Lunar Base Program
NASA has updated its lunar base deployment strategy just two months after unveiling its initial concept, refining how it will combine crewed Artemis missions with commercially driven CLPS lunar deliveries. Under the new approach, upcoming CLPS missions are being rebranded under a unified “Moon Base” naming system to better align with the broader lunar infrastructure program. The first three missions include Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander, designated Moon Base I, targeting a landing near the Shackleton crater ridge at the lunar south pole. Moon Base II will be Astrobotic’s Griffin 1 mission, carrying up to 500 kilograms of payload, including the FLIP rover from Astrolab. Moon Base III will be Intuitive Machines’ next Nova-C lander. All three missions are expected to launch before the end of the year, though scheduling remains ambitious. NASA also anticipates a rapid cadence of roughly monthly launches beginning in 2027. The agency’s official plan outlines a phased lunar base buildup: Phase 1 (through 2029) includes 25 launches and 21 landings delivering about 4 tons of cargo; Phase 2 (2029–2032) scales up to 60 tons; and Phase 3, starting after 2032, aims for over 100 tons on the lunar surface. NASA has also awarded contracts for lunar terrain vehicles (LTVs), including Astrolab’s CLV-1 and Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus rover, valued at over $200 million each. These will be delivered via Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1/2 landers. Notably, SpaceX’s Starship has been left out of this round of LTV contracts. Additionally, NASA is developing “Moonfall” hopping drones from JPL, designed to explore permanently shadowed regions in the lunar south pole, mapped at high resolution, and deployed via Firefly’s Elytra orbital transfer system. The Artemis III mission remains scheduled for mid-2027, potentially carrying crews to lunar orbit for surface operations supported by multiple Human Landing System providers. Despite the ambitious roadmap, questions remain about funding and whether NASA can sustain the scale of its planned lunar expansion.
KillBaitNASA Details Early Missions and Phased Deployment Plan for Its Lunar Base Program
📰 Original title: Las primeras misiones del proyecto de base lunar de la NASA
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
NASA Details Early Missions and Phased Deployment Plan for Its Lunar Base Program
NASA has updated its lunar base deployment strategy just two months after unveiling its initial concept, refining how it will combine crewed Artemis missions with commercially driven CLPS lunar deliveries. Under the new approach, upcoming CLPS missions are being rebranded under a unified “Moon Base” naming system to better align with the broader lunar infrastructure program. The first three missions include Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance lander, designated Moon Base I, targeting a landing near the Shackleton crater ridge at the lunar south pole. Moon Base II will be Astrobotic’s Griffin 1 mission, carrying up to 500 kilograms of payload, including the FLIP rover from Astrolab. Moon Base III will be Intuitive Machines’ next Nova-C lander. All three missions are expected to launch before the end of the year, though scheduling remains ambitious. NASA also anticipates a rapid cadence of roughly monthly launches beginning in 2027. The agency’s official plan outlines a phased lunar base buildup: Phase 1 (through 2029) includes 25 launches and 21 landings delivering about 4 tons of cargo; Phase 2 (2029–2032) scales up to 60 tons; and Phase 3, starting after 2032, aims for over 100 tons on the lunar surface. NASA has also awarded contracts for lunar terrain vehicles (LTVs), including Astrolab’s CLV-1 and Lunar Outpost’s Pegasus rover, valued at over $200 million each. These will be delivered via Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1/2 landers. Notably, SpaceX’s Starship has been left out of this round of LTV contracts. Additionally, NASA is developing “Moonfall” hopping drones from JPL, designed to explore permanently shadowed regions in the lunar south pole, mapped at high resolution, and deployed via Firefly’s Elytra orbital transfer system. The Artemis III mission remains scheduled for mid-2027, potentially carrying crews to lunar orbit for surface operations supported by multiple Human Landing System providers. Despite the ambitious roadmap, questions remain about funding and whether NASA can sustain the scale of its planned lunar expansion.
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WPS NewsWe’re Going Back
By Cliff Potts
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 4, 2026 — 07:05 AM PhST
Why This Moment Matters
There are moments in history when a decision does not belong to one nation.
It belongs to everyone.
This is one of those moments.
We’re going back to the Moon. Not as a flag-planting exercise, not as a Cold War rerun, and not as a national trophy case. This time, the goal is broader and more serious: to begin learning how humanity operates beyond Earth in a sustained way.
The program is called Artemis, and it represents the first real attempt in decades to move human presence off a single planet and keep it there (NASA, 2024).
Artemis II: The Door Reopened
That future is no longer theoretical.
Artemis II has already completed its mission.
The crew launched aboard the Space Launch System rocket and traveled in the Orion spacecraft on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. They conducted system checks in deep space, tested life-support systems with humans aboard, evaluated navigation and communication at lunar distance, and captured high-resolution imagery of both the lunar surface and Earth from deep space (NASA, 2025).
They orbited the Moon, passed behind it, and returned safely to Earth.
No drama. No failure.
Just proof.
Proof that we can send humans back to lunar distance and bring them home again.
That single fact changes everything. The question is no longer whether we can reach the Moon.
The question is whether we will finish the job.
Artemis III: The Step That Counts
The next mission, Artemis III, is the one that matters most.
That is the mission intended to land astronauts on the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo. It is designed not just as a visit, but as the beginning of a longer-term effort to operate on the Moon, particularly near the south pole where water ice may exist in permanently shadowed regions (NASA, 2024).
Water means survival.
Water means fuel.
Water means the possibility of staying.
That is the shift from exploration to presence.
The Argument We Always Hear
Every time humanity reaches for something like this, the same argument appears.
Why go to the Moon when there are problems on Earth?
It sounds responsible. It sounds grounded.
It is also incomplete.
We heard this argument when the Apollo program ended. We were told resources should be redirected toward fixing conditions on Earth. That was a reasonable claim at the time.
But those problems were not solved.
They did not disappear when exploration stopped. Many of them remain, decades later, largely unchanged.
Stopping exploration did not fix Earth.
It only limited what we were willing to attempt.
The Cost Reality
There is another misconception that deserves to be addressed clearly.
Space exploration is not what is draining national budgets.
NASA’s funding represents a small fraction of total government spending, often less than one percent (Office of Management and Budget, 2025). Even significant increases in that budget would not materially alter broader fiscal priorities.
This is not an either-or decision.
We can address problems on Earth and continue exploring beyond it.
We have the capacity to do both.
What Exploration Actually Does
Exploration is not separate from life on Earth.
It feeds into it.
Technologies developed through space programs contribute to advancements in communications, materials science, navigation systems, and medical research. These benefits return to Earth and become part of everyday infrastructure over time (National Research Council, 2011).
But beyond technology, exploration changes perspective.
It expands what people believe is possible.
It reminds us that progress is still an option.
A Species-Level Decision
This is not about the United States.
It is not about prestige.
It is about whether humanity chooses to remain confined to one planet or begins the process of becoming something more resilient.
A species that exists on a single world has a single point of failure.
A species that learns to operate beyond it does not.
That is the long-term meaning of this effort.
Where We Stand
We have already returned to lunar orbit.
We have already proven the path.
Now comes the harder part.
Landing. Operating. Surviving. Returning.
None of it is guaranteed. Timelines may shift. Systems may fail. Political priorities may change.
But those are not reasons to stop.
They are part of doing something difficult.
The Choice
We have been here before.
We reached the Moon, and then we chose to stop.
Now we are at that same decision point again.
Do we continue forward?
Or do we turn back and tell ourselves, once again, that there are more important things to do?
History suggests that waiting does not solve those other problems.
It only narrows what we attempt.
Closing
We have already gone back.
Now we decide whether we finish what we started.
Not as one country.
As a species.
We’re going back.
References
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2024). Artemis program overview. https://www.nasa.gov/artemis
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2025). Artemis II mission details and objectives. https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii
National Research Council. (2011). Recapturing a future for space exploration: Life and physical sciences research for a new era. National Academies Press.
Office of Management and Budget. (2025). Historical tables: Budget of the U.S. government. https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb
If this work helps you understand what’s happening, help me keep it going: https://www.patreon.com/cw/WPSNews
For more from Cliff Potts, see https://cliffpotts.org
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शून्यता| die Amerikaner sollen, müssen, unbedingt..
Fremder Leute Geld gibt sich einfach aus, eh?
| Toyota baut ja den Mondrover. Ich weiß nicht wieso die Autonation Deutschland da nicht...
Weil man auf dem #Mond nicht mit Verbrennern fahren kann, d'oh!
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https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:d70a79647391b433/
Podcast: Artemis 2 ist zurück vom Mond! Hat die Mission unsere Erwartungen erfüllt?
Zwischen Euphorie und Realität: Die erste bemannte Mondmission seit über 50 Jahren ist erfolgreich zu Ende gegangen. In dieser Folge blicken wir zurück auf Artemis II – vom Luna Flyby über technische Tests, den Highlights der Mission bis hin zu kuriosen Momenten. Doch was bleibt von Artemis II für die Wissenschaft und die Gesellschaft? Und wie sieht die Zukunft des Artemis-Programms aus? Gemeinsam mit Uwe Gradwohl, Leiter der SWR-Wissenschaftsredaktion, sprechen wir über die Parallelen zu Apollo, die Rolle der ESA und die Frage, ob Artemis das nächste große Ding der Raumfahrt werden kann. Über die Hosts: Anne-Dorette Ziems ist freie Wissenschaftsjournalistin, TikTokerin und Buchautorin. Bei @annesnerdnight erklärt sie Raumfahrt so, dass alle sie verstehen. David Beck ist Wissenschaftsjournalist beim SWR und deckt dort everything science ab: Von aktuellen Beiträgen bis zum Hintergrund-Feature, von Mathematik bis Biochemie – am liebsten aber Raumfahrt. In dieser Folge: 0:00 Intro 1:35 Im Rückblick: Pannen & Highlights der Mission 10:11 Bilder, Rekorde, Wissenschaft 22:10 Der “Apollo-Effekt” heute 34:10 Der Beitrag der ESA 39:30 Die Zukunft von Artemis Links: NYT-Artikel über den Hitzeschild: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/science/nasa-artemis-ii-earth-return-heat-shield.html Earthset: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009288 Hello, World: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192 Photo of Crew in Eclipse Glasses: https://x.com/NASA/status/2041534940635152433 Podcast-Tipp: Meilensteine – Alben, die Geschichte machten https://1.ard.de/SWR1_Meilensteine Redaktion und Mitarbeit: Kristina Koch, Anne-Dorette Ziems, David Beck, Fritz Espenlaub, Nina Kunze, Philip Artelt Kontakt: Wir freuen uns über Fragen und Kommentare an [email protected] Unterstützt uns: Wenn euch dieser Podcast gefällt, freuen wir uns über eine Bewertung auf eurer liebsten Podcast-Plattform. Abonniert „Ready for Liftoff!“ in der ARD Audiothek oder wo immer ihr eure Podcasts hört, um keine Episode zu verpassen. Und empfehlt uns gerne weiter!