Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the agency’s Artemis moon program.

Instead of going from the Artemis 2 mission around the Moon directly to a Moon landing with Artemis 3, NASA will instead make Artemis 3 a low Earth orbit mission, akin to the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969.

The agency also has a big, new goal of aiming for two crewed lunar landing attempts in 2028. On top of that, Isaacman says a change towards standardizing the Space Launch System rocket is necessary for NASA to be able to increase its flight rate to an annual cadence or potentially even faster than that.

Reporting and editing: Will Robinson-Smith, Spaceflight Now
Video shot by: Adam Bernstein, John Pisani, Will Robinson-Smith, Spaceflight Now

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• Blue Origin
• Lockheed Martin
• NASA
• SpaceX

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