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2 hours agoNASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon
Artemis III will test commercial lunar lander technologies in low Earth orbit using Orion and potential SpaceX and Blue Origin pathfinders.
NASA must standardize its approach, increase flight rate safely, and execute on the President's national space policy. With credible competition from our greatest geopolitical adversary increasing by the day, we need to move faster, eliminate delays, and achieve our objectives. Standardizing vehicle configuration, increasing flight rate and progressing through objectives in a logical, phased approach, is how we achieved the near-impossible in 1969 and it is how we will do it again.