NASA announced today that the Artemis II mission that was to launch this year and send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in five decades is being delayed to September 2025. Artemis III, which will return astronauts to the lunar surface, similarly is delayed for about a year, fro...
Monday, April 4, 2022, as the Artemis I launch team conducts the wet dress rehearsal test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Musk has said that, initially, SpaceX plans to build two launch towers in South Texas and two in Florida. Presumably, this is the baseline ground infrastructure needed to support the Artemis Program and the multiple refueling flights needed to enable lunar touchdowns. SpaceX still has plenty of...
Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)NASA's Orion spacecraft recently completed an 11-month test campaign, during which it was subjected to extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario and electromagnetic effects of lightning strikes.Space If you have a...
With the need for ever-deeper understanding of the world and universe and more advanced missions, such as Artemis—the mission to the moon—and the Space Launch System (SLS) to take humans there, NASA needed additional computing capability. The NAS’ current facility is a six-megawatt building...
place as NASA is still trying to launch Artemis I. The uncrewed mission, which is designed to test NASA’s new SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft,suffered a setback last weekwhen technical problems forced engineers to call off two separate launch attempts. A new launch date has yet to be ...
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Steve Stich, manager for NASA's commercial crew program, hailed Boeing's progress in recent years and said Starliner certification appears to be "on a good path" to finish checking off the requirements for future operational missions in November or December, assuming an on-time launch date. ...
NASA's lunar exploration plans under Artemis call for sending the first woman and first person of color to the surface of the Moon and establishing sustainable exploration by the end of the decade. The campaign has four strategic goals: Transition U.S. human spaceflight in low-Earth orbit to...
NASA is waiting on SpaceX to fully test the new Starship rocket so that it can use it for Artemis missions to the moon in the coming years. Amodified version of the upper-stage spacecraftis set to put the first humans on the lunar surface since 1972 in the Artemis III mission that’...