{"id":669223,"date":"2026-09-02T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/669223\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:53:25","slug":"lets-launch-the-artemis-3-mission-to-the-moon-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/669223\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s launch the Artemis 3 mission to the moon in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NASA Artemis 1 test mission and Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission with the first crew to the moon since the Apollo Program (almost 55 years ago) were incredible successes by all measures.\u00a0 They were important precursor steps for a United States landing on the moon. The Orion crew vehicle, Space Launch System (SLS) heavy lift rocket, ground systems, NASA\/industry development teams and operators proved themselves. The Artemis 2 crew performed admirably and are inspiring in recounting their incredible observations and experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now to read<br \/><strong>3 free articles this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly <strong>Editor\u2019s Choice, SpaceNews This Week <\/strong>and<strong> Opinions<\/strong> newsletters. Opt-out at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><a href=\"#signin_modal\"><strong>Sign in to an existing account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDoug Cooke is an aerospace consultant with over 49 years in NASA programs.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/doug-cooke\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Doug Cooke\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASA Artemis 1 test mission and Artemis 2 lunar flyby mission with the first crew to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[4401,18,19,17,1024,2336,133,3977,451],"class_list":["post-669223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nasa","tag-opinion","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117202963958768570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}