Book 1 - Hola MaHigh-School - June 2022

Artemis II (2024) will be the first
crewed test flight of SLS and the Orion
spacecraft. The four crew members
will perform extensive testing
in Earth orbit and Orion will then be
boosted into a free-return trajectory
around the Moon, which will return
Orion back to Earth for re-entry and
splashdown.
Artemis III (2025) will be a crewed
lunar landing. This includes the lunar
landing module and all that goes
with it.
Artemis IV (2026) is a crewed mission to the Lunar Gateway station in
moon orbit.
Artemis V through Artemis VIII and
beyond are proposed to land astronauts
on the lunar surface, where
they will take advantage of increasing
amounts of infrastructure that are to
be landed by support missions. These
will include habitats, rovers, scientific
instruments, and resource extraction
equipment.
Support missions include robotic landers, delivery of Gateway modules,
Gateway logistics, delivery of the HLS, and delivery of elements of the
Moon base. Most of these missions are executed under NASA contracts
to commercial providers.
The bigger modules are the Human Landing System (HLS) and the
Gateway systems. The Gateway is an in-development mini-space station
in lunar orbit intended to serve as a solar-powered communication hub,
science laboratory, short-term habitation module, and holding area for
rovers and other robots.