NASA on Friday announced a major overhaul to its Artemis back-to-the-moon program, a “course correction” that will add missions and increase the pace of launches ahead of a targeted moon landing attem

NASA is shaking up its Artemis mission to the moon, canceling a multibillion-dollar Boeing Co. upgrade to the centerpiece SLS rocket and adding another test flight to a program beset by delays and cost overruns.

In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the surface on Artemis III, NASA hopes to do so on Artemis IV.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.

The changes come as NASA hopes to launch astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon in April as part of its Artemis II mission, which has experienced a handful of setbacks recently.

At the core of Isaacman’s concerns is the low flight rate of the SLS rocket and Artemis missions. During past exploration missions, from Mercury through Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle program, NASA has launched humans on average about once every three months. It has been nearly 3.5 years since Artemis I launched.

NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land.

Nasa is to shake up its Artemis lunar programme after repeated delays, scheduling more frequent missions with the aim of landing astronauts on the Moon twice in 2028.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke announced Wednesday that it was his medical incident aboard the International Space Station in January that prompted the agency to return the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to