The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported on Monday that its engineers and technicians had completed all tests and checkouts of the Artemis I Moon rocket. Artemis I can now be rolled out to Kennedy Space Centre’s (KSC’s) Launch Pad 39B, for launch, which is currently planned for August 29. KSC is located at Cape Canaveral in the US State of Florida. With Artemis, Nasa is resuming crewed deep space exploration missions, firstly to the Moon, then probably to selected asteroids, but ultimately to Mars. The Artemis programme will see the first woman and the first person of colour land on the Moon. However, this first mission, Artemis I, will be an uncrewed test flight (although it will carry scientific experiments and deploy a number of scientific CubeSats). The first crewed mission will be Artemis II, while Artemis III will be the first to land on the Moon.
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