The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission has already flown, in 2022. The Artemis 2 mission in 2025 will use the SLS rocket to send a crew of four on a looping flight around the Moon aboard an Orion spacecraft.
NASA this week showed off the progress of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket to journalists, bringing out the crew and saying the rocket was ready to be stacked. On Monday ...
That has raised the possibility that a new Trump administration could replace SLS with Starship from Musk's SpaceX. Starship is already part of the architecture for future Artemis missions ...
The Artemis I mission was the first integrated flight test of the agency's deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and ground systems.