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| - The Artemis project was the Mariner Space Development spaceflight effort which landed the first humans on Earth's Moon since the end of the NASA's Apollo program in the early 1970s. Conceived as an international effort to develop the moon over the next twenty years, and conducted jointly with the world's state sponsored space administrations, Artemis began in earnest in early 2018 when the MSD lander, Artemis 1 launched from the mining station Coloma and landed the first survey team on the moon two days later. The Artemis 1 mission on February 11, 2018 carried five astronauts to the Sea of Tranquility, just ten kilometers from the Apollo 11 landing site, and established the first landing site for additional missions. Five subsequent Artemis missions that landed astronauts on the moon established Tranquility Base, the first permanent settlement on the lunar surface. An additional 195 missions under the "Artemis" monicer landed additional components to develop twenty-eight other large outposts on the lunar surface, however countless independent missions to these facilities occurred during this period that ultimately developed these outposts into full lunar colonies. The Artemis project ran from 2018 until 2034, and was the world's second human oriented lunar program. It used Artemis spacecraft and the MSD "Titan" Lunar Shuttle, which replaced the small Artemis lander in 2025. These spacecraft were used for a number of non-Artemis oriented missions, however are collectively associated with the Artemis project. Artemis set major milestones in human spaceflight. It was the first time humans had successfully sent manned missions to establish permanent settlements on another celestial body, and produced a large amount of usable data on the long term effects of space travel in humans that was essential to further missions and settlements. The project spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to propulsion and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and radiation shielding. Artemis also sparked interest in many fields of engineering and left many physical facilities and machines developed for the program as landmarks. Its first landers and other objects and artifacts are displayed throughout the world, notably in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museums in Washington, DC and at the Tranquility Spaceflight Museum on the moon itself.
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