English:
A faithful recreation of the official insignia of the
Artemis program
, an initiative by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
of the United States to establish a permanent human presence on
the Moon
. The program, which began in 2017 as a then-unnamed campaign of the agency's
Moon to Mars
program, aims to place an outpost on the lunar surface at the
South Pole?Aitken basin
by the end of the 2020s, through the aid of crewed scientific missions that will explore the environment of the lunar south pole utilising the
Orion spacecraft
, the
Lunar Gateway space station
, a
Human Landing System
, and various other contributions from commercial and intergovernmental organisations from various countries. The logo of the program, coloured in "Earth blue, rocket red and lunar silver", incorporates an arrowhead from the quiver of
the mythological Artemis
with a depiction of a
trans-lunar injection
trajectory. Recreated in an unspecified program, this solid-colour variant of the logo ? edited for better contrast with white backgrounds ? is referenced from
animations
used by NASA in promotional material, featuring solid colours instead of the insignia's original gradient-coloured design. The edited colours are based on those found in the aforementioned gradient-coloured design, referenced from resources
published
by NASA.