Artemis III

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Artemis III is a planned NASA mission intended to return humans to the lunar surface, including the first woman and next man to land on the Moon, as part of the broader Artemis lunar exploration program.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf NASA mission
lunar landing mission
country United States
crewCapacity 4 astronauts
crewLandingDuration multiple days on lunar surface
crewTransportSegment Orion to lunar orbit
destination Moon
destinationRegion lunar south polar region
fundingSource U.S. federal government
internationalCooperation true
landerProvider SpaceX
landingCrewSize 2 astronauts
launchComplex Launch Complex 39B
launchSite Kennedy Space Center
launchVehicle Space Launch System
launchVehicleVariant SLS Block 1
longTermGoalContribution enable future crewed missions to Mars
missionArchitecture Orion in lunar orbit with separate lunar lander
missionNumberInProgram 3
missionPhase planned
missionType crewed lunar landing
operator NASA Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
partOf Artemis program
plannedCrewed true
predecessorMission Artemis II
primaryObjective conduct scientific investigations on the lunar surface
demonstrate sustainable human lunar exploration capabilities
programContext U.S. human spaceflight program after Space Shuttle
programGoal land the first woman on the Moon
land the next man on the Moon
return humans to the lunar surface
relatedProgram Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Lunar Gateway
returnSegment Orion to Earth
scienceFocus in-situ resource utilization demonstrations
lunar south pole geology
search for and characterize lunar water ice
scienceReturn return lunar samples to Earth
spaceAgency NASA
spacecraft Orion spacecraft
spaceSuitSystem next-generation lunar EVA suits
status in development
successorMission Artemis IV
surfaceAccessSegment Starship Human Landing System
technologyDemonstration deep space human operations beyond low Earth orbit
lunar surface EVA operations at south pole
usesLunarLander SpaceX Starship Human Landing System


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