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The future missions are intended to “establish the foundation for long-term scientific exploration at the Moon” and “land the first woman and the first person of color” on its surface.

NASA said that it is pushing the missions back primarily to make sure its crew is safe, as the agency needs to resolve a battery issue and work on circuitry related to environmental systems, including air ventilation.

A Reuters report yesterday said that NASA had found an issue with the batteries in the Orion capsule built by Lockheed Martin during vibration testing and that they’d need replacing.

NASA also said it expects to finish investigating why the capsule lost char layers during its 2022 reentry into Earth’s atmosphere this spring.

Artemis I launched in 2022, sending NASA’s Orion capsule to orbit the Moon for a week and fly back to the Earth, a trip that took a little under a month.

The Artemis program originally had a longer timeline, with plans to get the lunar Gateway, a small planned space station that orbits the Moon, into place by 2026 and astronauts on the lunar surface by 2028, until Vice President Mike Pence announced in 2019 that the Trump administration was accelerating the schedule, pushing for a 2024 crewed landing.

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