NASA's Artemis Program: Current Status and Challenges Toward a Sustainable Lunar Presence - New Space Economy

Turn Up the Sustain: The Gateway’s Demise

Few NASA projects have received as much high-profile criticism as the plan to put a space station called Gateway in orbit around the Moon.  Space notables—moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, former NASA administrator Michael Griffin, Mars advocate Robert Zubrin, and planetary scientist Clive Neal—have all opined that the project is a waste of time, the wrong architecture, or a distraction from real priorities.  So it’s no surprise that President Donald Trum…

NASA's Artemis Program: Current Status and Challenges Toward a Sustainable Lunar Presence - New Space Economy

NASA’s Artemis program is a multi-phase initiative focused on establishing a sustainable human presence on the Moon. Building on past lunar missions, the program is structured around a series of increasingly complex missions that combine crewed flights, robotic systems, and infrastructure development.