NASA has successfully led off the Artemis human lunar program with the Artemis 1 test flight and the exciting Artemis 2 crewed flight around the moon. These missions demonstrated the United States’ capability to conduct human deep space exploration with the highly proven Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion crew vehicle. It is essential to continue an accelerated mission cadence to reduce risk and validate increasing capabilities on a pace to safely land astronauts on the moon as soon as possible.
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