Moon Mission

Home News Spaceflight Fifty years ago, Apollo 17’s command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 19, 1972 with Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans landing safely back home on Earth after a 12-day voyage to our lone satellite.  It was a record breaking mission, involving the…

        | Published: Friday, December 16, 2022, 10:59 After a 25-day journey, NASA’s Orion capsule returned to Earth and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, making the agency’s Artemis I moon mission a success. The spacecraft reached past the Moon and back and will carry astronauts in…

Home News Science & Astronomy A view of Earth from NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as it approached splashdown time on Dec. 11, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) NASA will look back on 2022 very fondly indeed. The space agency had a lot to celebrate this year, from the deployment and…

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NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under three. orange and white main parachutes. Credit: NASA NASA’s Orion spacecraft parachuted to a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday west of Baja California, ending an unpiloted test flight to the moon that spanned 25-and-a-half days and 1.4 million miles, proving out a new…

Home News Spaceflight A view of Earth from NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft as it approached its home planet on Dec. 11, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) NASA couldn't be happier with how its Artemis 1 moon mission went. Artemis 1 wrapped up Sunday afternoon (Dec. 11) with the successful splashdown…

Home News Spaceflight NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis 1 flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) The first mission of NASA's ambitious Artemis program produced some beautiful images.…

NASA picked a very good morning to return from the moon. It was 50 years ago today that the crew of Apollo 17 landed in the Taurus Littrow Valley on the lunar surface, where they planted the last of six flags Apollo crews would leave behind to mark their moments…

NASA needed a successful splashdown to stay on track for the next Orion flight around the moon, which will hopefully have four astronauts, and is currently targeted for 2024 Video Loading Video Unavailable NASA's Orion capsule returns to Earth by landing in the Pacific NASA 's Orion capsule has splash-landed…