Artemis III

Liftoff Time

No Earlier Than 1st Half, 2027

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Mission Details

Launch Notes

NASA's first crewed lunar landing attempt since Apollo 17 in 1972. Final flight of SLS Block 1.

Artemis III

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Artemis III will see 4 unannounced crew members launching to the moon aboard an SLS rocket. From there, they will enter a near-rectilinear-halo-orbit or NRHO. Two crew members will then board a commercial lunar lander, currently planned to be a SpaceX Lunar Starship, and conduct the first crewed lunar landing in over 50 years, while the remaining two crew members will stay aboard Orion. After a two week stay at the Lunar South Pole, the two astronauts will return to Orion and return home.

Trans Lunar Injection

1 Payload

Rocket

Active
SLS Block 1

Active Since 2022

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Agency

NASA

Price

$876.00 million

Rocket

Height: 98.1m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 95,000 kg

Liftoff Thrust

39,440 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.1m

Height: 14.3m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

LC-39B

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

28 days 11 hours