Moon Mission

Since NASA’s Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the Moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations collected on the test flight. Results from these science investigations will help support safe human…

Personal Tech This week on The Kettle, we mull over whether the Steam Deck is a canary in the coal mine for the future of hardware prices, and the effect of Blue Origin's blowout on NASA's Moon missions It was explosive news week – if you're the price of a…

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron Spaceflight Now screenshot/YouTube New Glenn, a giant rocket built and operated by Jeff Bezos’s aerospace firm…

Nasa announced on Tuesday ambitious plans for three uncrewed lunar missions this year to kickstart construction of a $20bn moon base, and said it had chosen the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to conduct the first. The revelation by Nasa’s administrator, Jared Isaacman, at…

Lauren E. Low May 22, 2026 As NASA pushes the boundaries of exploration and innovation for the benefit of humanity, the agency is looking for partners to share mission stories covering Artemis Moon missions, nuclear propulsion, aeronautics, and more. NASA published an Announcement for Proposals on May 21 asking filmmakers,…

The Artemis 2 astronauts on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) The Artemis generation has to deal with conspiracy theorists, too. The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission were accosted on Capitol Hill earlier this month by an aggressive man, who accused them of faking…

For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions. For decades, radiation-hardened processors have…

NASA has released more than 12,000 new photographs from the historic Artemis II mission, giving the public a closer look at the crew’s journey around the far side of the moon. The images were uploaded to NASA’s public astronaut photography archive over the weekend. The collection includes views captured during…

You can now browse through more than 12,000 photos taken by the Artemis 2 astronauts during their mission around the moon. The images range from stunning views of Earth to shots of the astronauts inside their Orion capsule to breathtaking images of the moon and the crew's unique perspective from…

Updated 1 May 2026 at 09:30 IST NASA's Artemis III mission is delayed again, with a launch now set for late 2027. Technical issues with lunar landing systems from SpaceX and Blue Origin, plus challenges in cryogenic fuel storage and Orion's heat shield, contribute to setbacks. Artemis III Delayed Again:…