NASA has selected SpaceX's Starship for its second crewed Artemis lunar landing mission.

 NASA chose the company's lunar lander to ferry the second group of astronauts to the Moon, as it expanded its role in the Artemis program. The agency picked the human landing system for Artemis 3, which will take humans back to the Moon decades after the last Apollo mission. NASA announced earlier this year that it was accepting new lunar landers for use beyond Artemis 3. The agency said that it was planning to exercise an option under their existing contract and was asking the company to modify its landing system to meet a new requirement.

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 That is for the lander to be able to take humans from the Gateway station to the Moon. As humanity attempts to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, NASA can use this upgraded lander for future missions. NASA says in its announcement that you can turn on browser notifications to receive breaking news. "The aim of this new work under option B is to develop and demonstrate a Starship lunar lander that meets NASA's sustaining requirements for missions beyond Artemis III, including docking with Gateway, accommodating four crew members, and delivering more mass to the surface." The original contract with NASA was worth $2.9 billion This modification will add $1.15 billion to the total.

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The company's lunar landers are expected to take astronauts to the moon. NASA Inspector General Paul Martin admitted in August that the agency is expecting Artemis 3's launch date to slip to 2026. NASA is anticipating delays related to the development of the human landing system and its next generation spacesuits. The Artemis 4 mission, which will take four more astronauts to the Moon, will take flight in 2027. After the successful Artemis 1 launch on November 16th, we're still waiting for updates on the Orion vehicle. You can find out the location of the spacecraft by following its official account, which frequently posts about its latest distance from Earth and from the Moon. 

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