Artemis 3 ... is planned as the first crewed Moon landing mission of the Artemis program [Wikipedia]

Eric Berger recently wrote a column in which he quoted an unnamed industry insider as saying about Artemis 3, "it may happen in 2028, but I'm not sure it will be on SLS".

Will Artemis 3 launch humans to the moon with SLS?

If Artemis 3 is cancelled or is not a crewed launch atop SLS, this will resolve NO, unless a substantially similiar mission replaces it using a crewed SLS.

(If Artemis 2 is canceled or is not a crewed SLS checkout, most probably this will resolve NO early, unless there is reason to assume Artemis 3 is still on track)

Close date updated to 2028-01-01 6:59 pm