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NASA delays first crewed flight to the moon in over 50 years | CNN
The Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays.
NASA previously disclosed that the spacecraft’s heat shield, which keeps Orion from burning up as the vehicle reenters the Earth’s atmosphere, became charred and eroded in an unexpected way during the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022. NASA plans to address the issue by flying Artemis II with a “modified trajectory.” That will include reducing the amount of time that Orion spends “skipping” across the atmospshere, officials said. But in 2019, then-Vice President Mike Pence made the stunning declaration that the administration would direct NASA to drastically accelerate that timeline, aiming to conduct a crewed moon landing by 2024.
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