NASA pushes back crewed Moon landing to 2025 or later
Nasa's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in its Block 1 crew vehicle configuration that will send astronauts to the Moon on the Artemis missions
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The United States will send a crewed mission to the Moon "no earlier than 2025," NASA chief Bill Nelson told reporters on Tuesday, officially pushing back the launch by at least a year.
"It's the position of NASA, and I believe the United States government, that we want to be there first back on the Moon after half a century."
Originally published as NASA pushes back crewed Moon landing to 2025 or later