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Detailed explanation-1: -Artemis 2 (2024) is the planned first crewed test flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft. The four crew members will perform extensive testing in Earth orbit, and Orion will then be boosted into a free-return trajectory around the Moon, which will return Orion back to Earth for re-entry and splashdown.

Detailed explanation-2: -Artemis 2. The crewed Artemis 2 mission, scheduled for 2024, will orbit the Moon without making a surface landing, just like Apollo 8 did. Before the year is over, the names of the crew’s four members will be announced. One of them is likely to be a Canadian.

Detailed explanation-3: -Splashdown: NASA’s Artemis I mission returns from the moon The successful splashdown of the spacecraft with no humans aboard keeps NASA’s Artemis mission on track to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.

Detailed explanation-4: -The plan is that this will help pave the way for humans to walk on the moon again in 2024, including the first woman to go to the moon. That woman could be Caribou native and astronaut Jessica Meir. NASA has an initial team of astronauts that are part of the Artemis Team, and that includes Maine’s Meir.

Detailed explanation-5: -Relativity Space, a 3D-printed rocket startup that’s planning its first orbital test launch this year, said Tuesday that it is planning to send a Mars lander and rover vehicle made by Impulse Space to the red planet as early as 2024.