Artemis III is a mission record in the MoonOpps lunar catalog (2026–2035), tracked for 2027 (2027). Status: Planned; crew named. Class: Crewed low-Earth-orbit HLS demonstration. Source confidence is High — corroborated by clear official or primary sources. The record links 13 actors, 2 payloads, 1 region, and 3 cited sources. Tracked actors include NASA, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and others. Payloads include Orion/SLS crewed mission, tests SpaceX and Blue Origin human landing systems in low Earth orbit. Target region: Low Earth orbit; lunar landing-system precursor, not a lunar surface mission under current architecture. Catalog figures come from public sources, not predictions or live scraping, accessed through 2026-06-09.

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2027 / 2027

Artemis III

High

Notes

Included because it is part of the public lunar program, but target region is LEO rather than the Moon.

Actors by role

Payloads by type

crew

Orion/SLS crewed mission

Orion/SLS crewed mission

lander

tests SpaceX and Blue Origin human landing systems in low Earth orbit

tests SpaceX and Blue Origin human landing systems in low Earth orbit

Regions

Sources

Publisher

NASA

Source date

Not specified

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

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Publisher

NASA

Source date

Not specified

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

Not specified

Publisher

NASA

Source date

2026-02-27

Accessed

2026-06-09

Updated

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