As the Artemis II mission crew heads back toward Earth following a history-making trip around the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts‘ highly anticipated morning playlist. “You asked for it. Here it is,” NASA wrote Wednesday on social media, sharing the list via Spotify. “Each track was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a tradition…
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) – NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans to the lunar surface before China’s first crewed landing. NASA…
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 30 (Reuters) – NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a key test flight in humanity’s broader lunar goals as the U.S. races to reassert leadership in space faced with growing competition from…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Artemis 2 Space Launch System Rocket on the launchpad. | Credit: Josh Dinner CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA continues to target Wednesday (April 1) for the launch of its Artemis 2 mission to fly astronauts around the…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) – The four astronauts selected for NASA’s Artemis II mission were due to arrive in Florida on Friday, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed journey toward the Moon in more than five decades. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The “Diana of Versailles” or “Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt”, a marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana, known as Artemis in Greek mythology, in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. | Credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC0 1.0 Universal NASA…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – NASA announced on Tuesday it has canceled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20 billion base on the moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. U.S. space agency…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artist’s illustration of a moon base under construction. | Credit: NASA Five years after the Artemis Accords were established, key rules for operating on the moon remain unresolved, including how to respond to emergencies and how to define…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA’s Artemis 2 moon rocket is seen inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 25, 2026, after rolling back from the launch pad. | Credit: Josh Dinner/Space.com Update for 9:50 p.m. ET…
