https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program
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The Artemis program was given its name in May 2019. Its a planned manned moon mission by 2024 and eventually a manned Mars mission. There will be a space station in lunar orbit by 2024. It is the successor to the Apollo program. In Greek mythology, Artemis was Apollo's twin sister.
It might be best to understand the program with a timeline:
1. Summer 2019 - a launch test of the capsule that will contain the astronauts
2. 2020 - Artemis 1 launches, which will be an unmanned mission around the moon.
3. 2022 - Artemis 2 launches, which will be a manned orbit of the moon (with no lunar landing).
4. 2024 - Artemis 3 launches, which will be a manned lunar landing in the south pole region of the moon.
5. 2025 - Artemis 4 launches, manned lunar landing.
6. 2026 - Artemis 5 launches, manned lunar landing.
7. 2027 - Artemis 6 launches, manned lunar landing.
8. 2028 - Artemis 7 launches, manned lunar landing.
9. 2028 - Artemis 8 launches, manned lunar landing and delivery of Lunar Surface Asset, a moon base.
10. 2030s - Manned mission to Mars using the moon base as a springboard.
In addition to the Artemis launches, NASA will hire private companies to perform 5 additional lunar launches between now and 2024 to ship the building blocks of a lunar space station that will serve as a "gateway" to the moon. This space station will be parked in lunar orbit. Artemis will dock with the space station. The space station will have its own lander that will shuttle astronauts between the space station and the moon.
NASA's boasts it can accomplish all of this in 5 years due to the bidding nature of the project. Instead of NASA listing precise mission requirements and trying to get contractors to match them, NASA is simply "buying the service" from contractors and letting them work out the details instead of "owning the hardware".
The beast behind the mission is the new SLS rocket system. It is the biggest rocket of all time and it will power the Artemis program.