NASA rethinks its moon timeline for Artemis program
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NASA is shaking up its Artemis mission to the moon, canceling a multibillion-dollar Boeing Co. upgrade to the centerpiece SLS rocket and adding another test flight to a program beset by delays and cost overruns.
Rather than land astronauts on the moon, the Artemis III mission will now focus on docking and space suit tests in low Earth orbit.
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CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is revising its Artemis lunar exploration initiative with a new mission to dock one or both human lunar landing systems with a crewed Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) ahead of landing astronauts on the Moon.