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 ...
As highlighted recently by Nature, the Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe includes 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 different ...
Some out-of-this-world trees are now home and ready to begin inspiring a new generation. NASA is preparing to distribute ...
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.
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 ...
The European Space Agency is moving to the human-in-the-loop stage of its testing procedure for the Moon space station Lunar ...
The moon serves as humanity's first stop and transit on way to the cosmos, and China is determined to keep each step firmly ...
The Shenzhou 18 crew will replace three taikonauts aboard the Chinese space station who are wrapping up a six-month stay.
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 ...