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After clunky Artemis test, Congress heeds renewed call to rely on companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin
After a Trump administration push last year to kill off the existing architecture of NASA’s Artemis program, Congress made moves to save it injecting billions toward funding the pricey, oft-delayed
NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.
NASA said Tuesday that it has postponed the second mission of its Artemis program, pushing the highly anticipated launch from Feb. 8 into March. During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,
Blue Origin has halted flights of its New Shepard spacecraft for two years, focusing on developing human lunar landing capabilities in support of NASA's Artemis mission.
NASA’s Artemis program, launched in 2017, has the ambitious goal to return humans to the moon and to establish a lunar base in preparation for sending humans to Mars. The first mission, Artemis I, launched in late 2022. Following some delays, Artemis II is scheduled for launch as early as a month from now.
More than 50 years after NASA's last human mission to the moon, four astronauts, three Americans and a Canadian, are set for the 10-day Artemis II mission to the far side of the moon.
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Behind the wings: The Artemis program’s journey to return to the moon
Experience the Artemis program’s journey to return humans to the moon and prepare for Mars - discover NASA's next giant leap in space exploration! Go behind the scenes of NASA’s Artemis program and discover how international teams are working together to send humans back to the moon for the first time since Apollo.