The Artemis programme is a human spaceflight programme of the United States, led by NASA, whose goal is to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustainable presence there as a step towards Mars. It grew out of a policy directive in 2017 and was named after Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the Moon in Greek mythology. NASA has said it plans to land the first woman and the first person of colour on the lunar surface. The programme uses the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion crew capsule, with commercial landers to be provided by private companies. Artemis I, an uncrewed test flight around the Moon, took place in 2022. The Artemis Accords set out principles for international cooperation.
Before and after
- 2017Construction of Rostov Arena
- 2017Rise of QAnon
- 2017Introduction of Binance
- 2017Discovery of Pandia
- 2017Artemis program
- 2017'Attention Is All You Need' introduces the Transformer
- 6 January 20172017 Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting
- 8 January 2017January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack
- 12 January 2017Despacito
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- July 1974Discovery of seaborgium
- 1976Discovery of bohrium
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