On Thursday, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the Artemis program, which will send astronauts back to the moon for the first time since 1972, will face new delays, including the postponement of the next two planned missions, including the lunar landing. Nelson stated at a press conference that the next Artemis mission, which will send astronauts on a round trip around the moon, will be postponed to April 2026, and the subsequent lunar landing mission will be delayed until 2027.