NASA accelerates lunar base construction, plans to achieve crewed moon landing by 2028

On October 23 local time, CCTV reporters learned that NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that day that NASA is accelerating the construction of a lunar base and the crewed lunar landing program, striving to return astronauts to the lunar surface within two years. Under the current schedule, the Artemis 3 mission is planned to launch in the summer of 2027, with four astronauts conducting a two-week flight mission in Earth orbit, respectively docking and testing with the lunar landers of SpaceX and Blue Origin. The Artemis 4 mission is still planned for implementation in 2028, at which time it will achieve the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo program.