Some out-of-this-world trees are now home and ready to begin inspiring a new generation. NASA is preparing to distribute ...
Post-flight inspection of the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield showed an unanticipated loss of char layer pieces from the ...
In this stable lunar orbit, it will wait for the Orion spacecraft. 5. Orion’s rendezvous with Starship HLS Things really start to get interesting when the Artemis III crew arrives on the Moon.
Lunar Delivery NASA is still hoping to carefully lower astronauts to the lunar surface from a SpaceX Starship, humanity's ...
It will require a number of previously untested steps, including an Orion-Starship rendezvous and docking in lunar orbit; humans flying inside of Starship in space; Starship going down to the ...
(The spacecraft model's previous journeys were the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to lunar orbit in late 2022 and a brief trip to Earth orbit in 2014.) Artemis 2's Orion has more work in store after ...
China launched three astronauts into low-Earth orbit on Thursday night ... ground exploration equipment, Orion spacecraft, ...
The European Space Agency is moving to the human-in-the-loop stage of its testing procedure for the Moon space station Lunar ...
The Shenzhou 18 crew will replace three taikonauts aboard the Chinese space station who are wrapping up a six-month stay.
NASA meticulously selected organizations nationwide to receive 'Moon Tree' seedlings from the Artemis I mission. These ...
Hundreds of seeds – including sycamores, sweetgums, Douglas firs, loblolly pines, and giant sequoias – traveled the 270,000 miles to lunar orbit during the uncrewed Orion test flight in 2022.
At the end of the Artemis III mission, that HLS Starship lunar lander remains in high lunar orbit (aka the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit, NRHO) indefinitely. At that point, the main tanks of that ...