The first Artemis mission to make use of NASA's moon-orbiting Gateway space station will be Artemis 4, now scheduled to launch in 2028, agency officials confirmed earlier this month.
NASA and its international partners see Gateway as a key platform to support the agency's Artemis moon program and to build the technology required for future deep-space missions. Although the first elements of the small space station are expected to launch before the Artemis 3 mission lifts off in 2025 or 2026, NASA previously said that those astronauts will not use Gateway to "make that mission have a higher probability of success."
Instead, astronauts of the Artemis 4 mission, who will attempt the program's second landing on the moon, in 2028, will be the first ones to live and work in the small lunar outpost, Stephanie Dudley, the mission integration and utilization manager for Gateway, confirmed during an Aug. 2 presentation at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) here in Seattle.
Source: www.space.com
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