After Artemis II, NASA looks to SpaceX, Blue Origin for Moon landings

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NASA's Orion spacecraft is seen arsenic  betterment   teams enactment    to unafraid  the spacecraft up  of transferring Artemis II unit  members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, unseen, pursuing  splashdown successful  the Pacific Ocean disconnected  the seashore  of California, United States.

NASA's Orion spacecraft is seen arsenic betterment teams enactment to unafraid the spacecraft up of transferring Artemis II unit members Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, unseen, pursuing splashdown successful the Pacific Ocean disconnected the seashore of California, United States. | Photo Credit: NASA via PTI

With Artemis II successfully completing its historical lunar ngo connected Friday (April 10, 2026), NASA is banking connected billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the adjacent step: landing astronauts connected the Moon.

The Apollo programme — which sent the archetypal and lone humans to the Moon's aboveground betwixt 1969 and 1972 — was designed truthful that lone 2 astronauts could onshore connected the lunar aboveground for a maximum of a fewer days.

Published - April 11, 2026 01:04 p.m. IST

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