NASA delays Artemis mission to moon
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The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission began their routine two-week quarantine on Wednesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of their upcoming launch to the International Space Station.
While Artemis II won’t land, its successor, Artemis III, is expected to launch and land on the surface of the moon mid-2027. NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build the vehicle that will carry astronauts to the moon.
NASA is gearing up to launch a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The upcoming Crew-12 consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Crew-12 will fly to the orbiting laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA says it is reviewing options to move the launch earlier than its original target date of Sunday, Feb. 15.
Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is due to launch on the West Coast. Californians have plenty of ways to watch liftoff, including a livestream.