"Artemis 1 set new records of performance, exceeded efficiency expectations, and established new safety baselines for humans ...
SpaceX’s Starship HLS will launch separately. It will rendezvous and dock with the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit. Two of ...
Post-flight inspection of the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield showed an unanticipated loss of char layer pieces from the ...
Multiple sources have confirmed that NASA is studying alternatives to the planned Artemis III landing of two astronauts on ...
Significant milestones are being achieved for the Artemis IV mission, as construction of Gateway, the premier space station ...
Some out-of-this-world trees are now home and ready to begin inspiring a new generation. NASA is preparing to distribute ...
As highlighted recently by Nature, the Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe includes 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 different ...
The moon serves as humanity's first stop and transit on way to the cosmos, and China is determined to keep each step firmly ...
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 ...
One reason cited for the 10-month delay was getting to the bottom of reentry heat shield data from Artemis 1, which sent an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and back. Engineers have been ...