Fly me to the Moon: Airbus Builds the European Service Module for NASA's Artemis Mission July 2022 - Almost 50 years after the last human being, NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan, left the lunar surface to return to E
SpaceX needs not only to get the new vehicle working properly but also to stage an uncrewed demonstration at the Moon. And just getting Starship to the vicinity of the Moon will require the company to refuel its craft in Earth orbit first - a practice that's completely novel. Indeed, it ...
NASA teams at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have successfully integrated all five key structures of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis II. This first crewed Artemis mission will carry four astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth. On March 17,...
Artemis II is a crewed test flight around the Moon. It will not enter orbit, much less land on the Moon, but fly a free-return trajectory so the spacecraft will return to Earth even if the Orion thrusters do not work as planned. That flight needs to prove out the systems before launc...
It has decided to push back the next two planned missions, Artemis II and Artemis III, until 2026 and 2027. The delay came after NASA concluded an examination of the Orion crew capsule, made by Lockheed Martin, and its heat shield, which had malfunctioned during reentry into Earth's atmos...
Artist’s impression of Orion over the Moon. Orion is NASA’s next spacecraft to send humans into space. It is designed to send astronauts further into space than ever before, beyond the Moon to asteroids and even Mars. When they return to Earth, the astronauts will enter our atmosphere ...
Artemis 3 will follow a similar mission profile to Artemis 2, including a launch from the Kennedy Space Center, a translunar injection to bring the astronauts to the moon, an orbiting mission and a return to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. ...
Mankind has always been fascinated with exploring the Moon, and that will probably always be the case. At first, in the time leading up to the famous first moon landing in 1969, the goal was simply to reach the moon, and spend a short time looking around, and return to earth safely. ...
NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a three-man one-woman crew on the first piloted Orion flight, a shakedown mission to test the spacecraft's life support, propulsion and other systems in Earth orbit before pressing ahead for...
The ESM-3 will play a critical role in supporting 4 astronauts during their 3-week mission: from the moment they leave Earth’s orbit, through their journey into lunar orbit, docking with the Human Landing System (HLS) in lunar orbit, and their safe return to Earth. Discover Orion’s Eur...