posted 08-27-2022 08:47 PM               

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Originally posted by 328KF:
...as if this is a requirement?

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On Friday (Aug. 19), during an Artemis briefing, Marcia Dunn with the Associated Press asked, "I know you mentioned the first woman is going to be on this crew, but we also keep hearing about the first person of color. Is that a requirement for the first landing crew? Is it a desire? Or it is TBD?"

Mark Kirasich, NASA's deputy associate administrator for the Artemis Campaign Development Division, replied:

So we know on the first mission, we're going to land a woman, and whether or not that woman will be a person of color or either of the two crew members will be a person of color, that's not a mandatory requirement for the first mission. It could happen. It could be one of the subsequent missions.

posted 08-09-2023 11:26 AM               

Jim Free, the space agency's associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, told reporters in a briefing that certain key elements would have to be in place — notably the landing system that is being developed by SpaceX.

Should that not be ready on time, "We may end up flying a different mission," he said.

posted 03-11-2024 04:41 PM               

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Originally posted by YankeeClipper61:
Speaking of landing...

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posted 12-05-2024 12:18 PM               

Assuming the SpaceX lander is ready, we plan to launch Artemis III in mid-2027.

posted 03-21-2025 04:06 PM               

The Artemis landing page of NASA's website previously included the words: NASA will land the first woman, first person of color, and first international partner astronaut on the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before."

The version of the page live on the website on Friday, however, appears with the phrase removed.

NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel said in a statement emailed to the Guardian: "In keeping with the president's executive order, we're updating our language regarding plans to send crew to the lunar surface as part of NASA's Artemis campaign. We look forward to learning more from [and] about the Trump administration's plans for our agency and expanding exploration at the moon and Mars for the benefit of all."

posted 03-22-2025 06:30 AM               

There are enough members of Congress and White House spokespeople who have gone on record as saying they don't want to hand China any victories in space. So, if they hold to that, there is no way that the U.S. will cede the records of first woman, first person of color and first international astronaut on the moon to a Chinese mission.

posted 04-08-2025 12:16 PM            

He said that going to Mars is such a big deal that nobody would go all that way without attempting to land. I said the first visit would orbit Mars and make a landing on Phobos. There was a time when I was sure I would win (maybe posthumously!) but with the arrival of SpaceX, I'm not so sure now!

posted 08-26-2025 05:58 PM               

There are a lot of crew systems that are being developed now. We're in work with them on how we're going to effectuate the crew manual control requirements that we have, so it's been a great balance to see what the crew needs, given the size of the ship. That's been a great set of work.

We have crew office hours where the crew travels to Hawthorne and works one-on-one with the different responsible engineers in the different technical disciplines to make sure that they understand not just little words on the paper from a requirement, but actually what this means, and then how systems can be operated.