Post-flight inspection of the Artemis 1 Orion heat shield showed an unanticipated loss of char layer pieces from the ...
Some out-of-this-world trees are now home and ready to begin inspiring a new generation. NASA is preparing to distribute ...
Multiple sources have confirmed that NASA is studying alternatives to the planned Artemis III landing of two astronauts on ...
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 ...
(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 moon serves as humanity's first stop and transit on way to the cosmos, and China is determined to keep each step firmly ...
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.
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 ...