NASA's Artemis II ushers in a new era of human exploration

After all the tests, NASA determined that Artemis II was safe to fly with its current heat shield, but NASA decided to use a ...

What's it like training for a moon mission? Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen gives us the scoop

If all goes as planned, early next year four astronauts will blast off on a mission that’s been a long time coming: a return to the moon. Canada's Jeremy Hansen takes us through what he's been doing ...

The farthest journey in human history is about to begin

The first mission of the program, Artemis I, lifted off on November 16, 2022. The uncrewed flight to test the equipment was, ...
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Artemis Program: NASA's plan to send humans back to the moon

Artemis 2: On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will take a round-trip journey around the moon during the Artemis 2 mission. The team will consist of astronauts Reid ...

SpaceX Wants to Fly Its Gigantic Starship Directly Over Florida

SpaceX is inching closer to sending its Starship rocket into low Earth orbit. A newly proposed flight path for the upper ...
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Private spacecraft will give NASA's Swift space telescope an orbital boost in 2026 in 1st-of-its-kind mission

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit ...