NASA Artemis Missions: the Moon-to-Mars campaign explained

Artemis is NASA-led human exploration for the new lunar era. It is not one mission, one launch, or one landing. It is a campaign designed to move from test flights to crewed operations, then toward sustained activity around and on the Moon. The programme brings together the Space Launch System rocket, the Orion spacecraft, ground systems at Kennedy Space Center, commercial lunar systems, international partners and future surface infrastructure.

Apollo demonstrated that people could reach and work on the Moon. Artemis aims to learn how to return more regularly, carry out science near the lunar South Pole and prepare for later deep-space missions. NASA's schedule and mission details can change as hardware is tested.

Artemis I flew without astronauts in 2022 and proved SLS and Orion could complete a lunar journey. Artemis II carried four people around the Moon in April 2026. Artemis III is planned to test docking with one or both commercial lander test vehicles in low Earth orbit in 2027.

Artemis IV targets a crewed landing near the lunar South Pole in early 2028. NASA also anticipates Artemis V as another surface mission by late 2028. These are targets, not fixed launch dates; each step depends on testing and safety reviews.

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NASA expects Artemis V to continue surface exploration and begin work toward a Moon base. Later missions are planned at roughly annual intervals, subject to funding, hardware readiness and mission results.

The next landing site has not been selected. Candidate regions near the South Pole are studied for safe terrain, lighting, communications and science potential. The individual mission guides below track what NASA has confirmed so far.