NASA scraps its 2027 moon landing, adds two missions in 2028

NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land on the moon as originally planned, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced February 27 in a news conference. Instead, the agency aims to attempt two lunar landings in 2028.

“Everyone agrees this is the only way forward,” Isaacman said. “This is how NASA changed the world, and this is how NASA is going to do it again.”

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