NASA craft to face heat-shield test on its first astronaut flight next year

The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...

NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.
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NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps a selfie on its journey beyond the far side of the moon

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will ...
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NASA Practiced Next Year's Human Moon Launch, Stopped the Clock at T-Minus 30 Seconds

American space agency NASA conducted a full rehearsal of the launch day procedures for the Artemis II mission scheduled to ...
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NASA restores contact after Orion mysteriously goes dark for 47 minutes

After a successful lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center last Wednesday and a close fly-by of the Moon earlier this week, it had been pretty smooth sailing for NASA’s Artemis I mission so far.
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Why Artemis II is NASA's most critical mission in decades

NASA's long-awaited return to the Moon is nearing fruition with the potential launch of Artemis II, their first crewed deep ...
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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says Texas may get a moonship, not space shuttle Discovery

NASA's new chief Jared Isaacman said a controversial proposal to move the space shuttle Discovery to Texas from its current ...