human exploration
Artemis is a NASA-led lunar exploration campaign that brings together commercial and international partners to advance science and sustained human exploration on and around the Moon.
Artemis is NASA’s lunar exploration campaign, led by the agency with commercial and international partners. It is focused on the Moon and the space around it, combining scientific work with sustained human exploration in that setting.
The campaign brings together several elements: the SLS launch vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, ground systems, landers, and surface systems. These components describe an architecture spanning ground operations, space transportation, and activities associated with lunar landing and the lunar surface.
Artemis lunar missions are also used to develop capabilities relevant to future human exploration of Mars. That purpose does not make Artemis a Mars exploration campaign, nor does it establish outcomes, schedules, particular destinations, or technical characteristics for individual missions. The available information defines its identity, principal systems, and broad aims, but does not specify operational status or the accomplishments of any individual element.
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