Artemis II almost certainly will miss its September 2025 launch date
Don’t book your tickets for the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission next year just yet.
We have had reason to doubt the official September 2025 launch date for the mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for a while now. This is principally because NASA is continuing to mull the implications of damage to the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield from the Artemis II mission nearly two years ago.
However, it turns out that there are now other problems with holding to this date as well.
