NASA, Artemis and moon rocket
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NASA has run into exasperating fuel leaks in a make-or-break test of the moon rocket that's supposed to send astronauts on a lunar fly-around.
Artemis II is preparing for launch from the Kennedy Space Center, where the rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft for a second time, this time with a crew on its journey to the moon.
NASA has released its monthly skywatching update on what to look out for over the coming weeks, and you can probably guess which event tops the list. That’s right: the Artemis II mission. NASA is about to launch a crew on a voyage around the moon in what will be the first human lunar mission
More than 50 years after NASA's last human mission to the moon, four astronauts, three Americans and a Canadian, are set for the 10-day Artemis II mission to the far side of the moon.
See footage Orion Spacecraft, moon and Earth shortly before its "outbound powered flyby burn". Orion was less than 2000 miles away from the moon and over 200,000 miles away from Earth. Credit: Credit: NASA / edited by Space.
NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.
When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of sky-high thinking entrepreneurs and designers have their way, we will soon really be able to slip out of this world completely.
Has driving through history ever been so cool, beautiful and timely than visiting Cape Canaveral, the original and current spaceport for NASA?
While the world holds its collective breath and awaits humanity's return to the moon after more than a half-century for a record-breaking lunar voyage, Time magazine is celebrating the momentous event with a special Artemis 2 cover issue that hit newsstands on Friday (Jan. 30).