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Artemis Rewritten: NASA’s New Moon Plan, Its Risks, and Whether the U.S. Can Still Beat China

By Shreya Chandra

PublishedApril 20, 2026

In early 2026, NASA made a consequential change to the Artemis program: Artemis III was no longer planned as a crewed lunar landing mission. Instead, Artemis III had been changed to a low Earth Orbit (LEO) demonstration flight that would test integrated operations between the Orion spacecraft and one or both commercial lunar landers being […]