Last mentioned: Mar 7, 2026
Artemis I Launch
Successful uncrewed flight of SLS and Orion to lunar orbit.
Targeted Artemis II Launch
First crewed mission of the Artemis program (Projected).
Second Fueling Test
Critical wet dress rehearsal to validate hardware for crewed flight.
Artemis III Landing
Planned return of humans to the lunar surface.
Projected Gateway Launch
Target window for first Vulcan-led delivery of Gateway logistics or modules.
Artemis Selection
NASA officially integrates Vulcan Centaur 5 into the Artemis mission architecture.
NSSL Certification
Completion of required flights for National Security Space Launch certification.
Vulcan Maiden Flight
Successful inaugural launch of the Vulcan Centaur (Cert-1) carrying the Peregrine lunar lander.
NASA has officially selected United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur 5 to support the Artemis lunar program, marking a critical expansion of the agency's heavy-lift capabilities. This decision reinforces the shift toward a multi-provider commercial model for deep-space logistics and infrastructure.
NASA has initiated its second major rocket fueling test for the Artemis program, a pivotal milestone that will dictate the launch window for the next crewed lunar mission. This technical validation is essential for ensuring the integrity of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the safety of the astronauts slated for the historic journey.
This page surfaces every story mentioning Artemis across our space & defense coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running space & defense beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Artemis was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |