NASA Delays Artemis Moon Missions Due to Heat Shield Issues

NASA Mission To Land Humans On Moon Delayed: Artemis 3 Now Slated For Mid-2027

NASA on Thursday postponed its upcoming two Artemis missions, including the one expected to land humans back on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over half a century. What Happened: While the Artemis 2 mission is now slated for April 2026, Artemis 3 is slated for mid-2027. Previously, the agency was planning to undertake the Artemis 2 mission in Sept. 2025 and Artemis 3 in 2026. During the Artemis 1 mission in late 2022, charred mate…

NASA delays manned Artemis missions to moon again due to heat shield problems

NASA's planned Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which are set to take astronauts into orbit around and then onto the south pole of the moon, have been pushed back again.

NASA Pushes Back America's Return to the Moon to 2027, With the Next Artemis Program Flight Slated for 2026

The space agency's decision comes after an investigation into the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, which suffered damage during the Artemis 1 test mission in 2022

NASA Pushes Human Moon Landing Back to 2027

The Artemis moon landings are delayed again due to technical difficulties. This time, the problem is with the Orion spacecraft heat shield. NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the new landing dates are in April of 2026 for Artemis II and sometime in 2027 for the first human landing during the Artemis III mission. The difficulties the Artemis program faces stem from the complexity of the hardware and trajectories needed to take astrona…

NASA's Artemis Moon Mission delayed, new schedule set for 2026 and 2027

There have been major delays in NASA’s Artemis program which have caused setbacks for astronauts flying to the Moon as a part of that mission. This comes as Artemis II, which is intended to carry four astronauts into a lunar orbit, was moved to April 2026.