{"id":485193,"date":"2026-06-10T05:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:54:17","slug":"artemis-iii-nasa-names-astronauts-to-prepare-for-moon-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/485193\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis III: Nasa names astronauts to prepare for Moon landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artemis III changed from being an historic, crewed Moon landing to a technology test in Earth orbit because of delays to Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX&#8217;s Starship rocket. This is the vehicle intended to take astronauts from lunar orbit to its surface. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was also judged to be too big a leap to go from looping the Moon, with Artemis II, to go straight to a lunar landing without first testing the procedure to dock with the lunar landers in Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In March 2026, the Government Accountability Office found that SpaceX had made &#8220;limited progress maturing the technologies needed for in-orbit refuelling and cryogenic propellant storage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starship is so heavy that it cannot reach the Moon withot being refuelled in Earth orbit first. This involves launching a fleet of tanker vehicles which transfer cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen across in sequence, a highly ambitious manoever has not yet been tested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa&#8217;s Moon mission team received a further setback last month when its other partner, Blue Origin, watched its New Glenn rocket blow up during a routine engine test. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No one was hurt, but the launch pad was extensively damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemis III changed from being an historic, crewed Moon landing to a technology test in Earth orbit because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-485193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}