page_title: Artemis Project
hierarchical_section_title: Artemis Project
caption_attribution_description: English: ASI Translunar module in flight (rendered image).
context_page_description: The Artemis Project was a private spaceflight venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting base on the Moon by 2002. It was named after Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, in some myths the moon,
  and twin sister of Apollo. The project's creators, the Lunar Resources Company, formed the Artemis Society as a non-profit NGO in 1994. They planned to cover the costs by exploiting the entertainment value in creating a lunar colony. They also believed that their costs would be a small fraction of what a government agency, such as NASA, would have spent.
  The project studied other space colonization projects as well, including colonies on outer planet moons.
context_section_description: The Artemis Project was a private spaceflight venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting base on the Moon by 2002. It was named after Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, in some myths the moon,
  and twin sister of Apollo (a reference to the Apollo project). The project's creators, the Lunar Resources Company, formed the Artemis Society as a non-profit NGO in 1994.  They planned to cover the costs by exploiting the entertainment value in creating a lunar colony. They also believed that their costs would be a small fraction of what a government agency, such as NASA, would have spent.
  The project studied other space colonization projects as well, including colonies on outer planet moons.
caption: Lunar Transfer Vehicle en route from the Earth to the Moon
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