NASA has been working toward the Artemis I test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft by the end of this year. The first SLS/Orion flight with a crew, Artemis II, is on the books for 2023, and the return of astronauts to the lunar surfa...
The November launch period opens Nov. 12 and runs through Nov. 27. NASA has about two weeks of launch availability in each Artemis launch period, followed by around two weeks when the mission would be not be feasible. The primary driver of the launch periods is the position of the moon i...
These new Artemis launch dates represent delays of about a year for each flight. The rightward push was spurred by the need to conduct more studies of key Artemis hardware, such as the heat shield of NASA's Orion crew capsule, which didn't perform quite as expected during the uncrewed Art...
NASA is targeting 1:04 a.m. ET Nov. 16 for its third crack at Artemis I. It's a two-hour launch window in the dead of night. Tweet may have been deleted The first Artemis attempt was "scrubbed" after the launch crew discovered an engine that appeared not to be cooling fuel prope...
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 ...
In the same week thatNASA announced targeted datesfor the maiden launch of its mega moon rocket, the agency has dropped a cinematic trailer (below) to spread the word about the mission. Scheduled to take place as early as August 29, the much-anticipated Artemis I mission will usher in a ...
NASA will select sites within regions for Artemis III after it identifies the mission’s target launch dates, which dictate transfer trajectories and surface environment conditions. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a ...
NASA fires up Artemis 1 moon rocket's first-stage engines again NASA's Space Launch System rocket being readied for rollout ahead of its test flight to the moon later this year.(Image credit: NASA) NASA appears to have ironed out the kinks with the core-stage engines of the Space Launch...
The journey of Artemis 1 will provide a pathway for astronauts, including those from Canada, to reach the Moon and perhaps one day Mars.
Final work continues to prepare the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Artemis I. Teams have identified placeholder dates for potential launch opportunities. They include: August 29 at 8:33 a.m.EDT(Two-hour launch window); Landing Oc...