NASA has announced that its plans to put humans back on the Moon will need some more time. In a statement, NASA announced delays to its next launches in the Artemis program, which is the foundation for the group's plans to go back to the Moon and later Mars.

Artemis II, the first crewed mission around the Moon, is now slated for September 2025 (a delay of about a year), with Artemis III slipping back to September 2026. The latter mission will put humans near the surface of the Moon's South Pole, but it won't touch down.

NASA's Artemis IV mission to the yet-to-be-built Gateway space station that will float around the Moon remains on track for 2028. Notably, the first elements of Gateway were scheduled to be sent into space in October 2025, but NASA now says it's "reviewing the schedule" for that.