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NASA Confirms Plans to Launch Its Artemis 2 Crewed Moon Mission: See Date
NASA is on track to launch a crewed mission around the Moon in November of next year after a successful unmanned test flight, the US space agency said…
Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time to Send a Snakebot to Space
If the boxy Opportunity rover could elicit years of anthropomorphized love and goodwill, then surely Earthlings will warm to the idea of sending a…
NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space Center
After to the Moon and back at the start of last month, NASA’s Artemis 1 has returned to the Kennedy Space Center. The homecoming occurred on December 30th.…
Let’s Go to Mars. Let’s Not Live There
Some people would rather invest these resources in solving global problems, not launching astronauts to other worlds. People in the 1960s questioned the…
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
“For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has been part of the mission…
Artemis 1’s Orion capsule returned safely to Earth. What’s next?
NASA’s Orion passenger space capsule has passed a huge test, splashing down intact in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico on December 11. The…
The Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
After circling the moon for the past three weeks, NASA’s Orion capsule splashed down under parachute yesterday morning off the coast of Baja California near…
NASA Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft returns to Earth: Top facts of the journey around the Moon –…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has returned to Earth after completing the US space agency's Artemis1 moon mission. The uncrewed capsule splashed down into the…
Orion parachute splashdown completes Artemis I moon mission
NASA's Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5-day mission to the Moon. Image: NASA/James M. BlairThe…