View 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…
Oct21 The U.S. Enduring Human Presence in Orbit: Reflecting on the Future and Past 25 Years For 25 years, since the first crew arrived at the International Space Station on November 2, 2000, the United States has had astronauts in low Earth orbit. Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Tuesday, October 21, at 4:00 p.m. for a conversation about this milestone and future of U.S. crewed activities in low Earth orbit. […]
View Challenges and Opportunities of Nigeria’s Space Program By Tyler Way PublishedJune 24, 2020 Commentary on Nigeria’s civil space program and its current operations.
View So What’s the Big Deal About Mars InSight? By Sean O'Keefe PublishedDecember 3, 2018 Why go to Mars? The InSight vehicle is designed to examine the Mars interior—its core and crust—to learn how the planetary formations may have been different from ours and look for evidence of seismic or other events that may explain its hellish reality today.
