Washington, Sept. 22 -- : NASA on Monday (local time) shared an update to its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plan to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024.
"With bipartisan support from Congress, our 21st-century push to the Moon is well within America's reach," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine in a statement.
In the 18 months since NASA accepted a bold challenge to accelerate its exploration plans by more than four years and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade, the agency has continued to gain momentum toward sending humans to the Moon again for the first time since the last Apollo lunar mission in 1972.
"As we have solidified more of our exploration plans ...