THE NASA announced her postponement of designs her to send again people in the moon after half a century, due to “delays” in its extremely ambitious program, Artemis II and III.

The US space agency announced that the mission Artemis II – which envisages sending a crew into orbit around the Moon for 10 days, order “to test life support systems” adjourned for him September 2025for security reasons.

The first manned space mission to the Moon in 50 years was scheduled to take place on November 2024.

American astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reed Weissman and fellow Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen make up the crew for the Artemis 2 mission

Also, the mission Artemis III for landing four astronauts near the lunar south pole will be delayed until September 2026.

Nasa said the delays to the mission would allow its teams to “address the development challenges associated with the program” which is working with private companies such as SpaceX of Elon Musk and the Lockheed Martin and uses to a great extent untested spaceships and technology.

“We’re going back to the moon in a way we’ve never done before. As we prepare for future Artemis missions, the safety of our astronauts is Nasa’s top priority,” said senior NASA official Bill Nelson.