Moon Mission

Home News Spaceflight China's Chang'e 3 lander on the surface of the moon. (Image credit: CNSA/CLEP) China's government has officially approved three robotic moon missions that will lay groundwork for a permanent lunar base. The Chang'e program missions in development are progressing well, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced…

NASA is now targeting 27 September as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon.If it does not receive the waiver, the rocket will have to be wheeled back to its assembly building, pushing the timeline back several weeks.A potential next date comes on…

NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B after the launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center on September 06, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B after the launch was scrubbed…

After years of mounting anticipation, NASA’s first full-scale moonshot since 1972 finally towered over its Florida launchpad in late August—only to go nowhere due to a persnickety fuel leak. It’s just the latest delay for Artemis 1—an uncrewed flight slated to launch from Earth, shoot itself around the moon, and…

NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 30. Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon NASA officials said Thursday they hope to try again to launch the Artemis 1 moon rocket from the Kennedy Space Center as soon as Sept. 23 or 27, but that…

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...Read More

This past weekend, NASA scrubbed the Artemis I uncrewed mission to the moon and back. Reportedly, the space agency will try again to launch the inaugural moon mission featuring the gargantuan Space Launch System (SLS) at the end of this month or sometime in October. Meanwhile, half a world away,…

Home News Human Spaceflights NASA astronaut Don Lind observes crystals being grown on board the Spacelab 3 science module during space shuttle Challenger's STS-51B mission in 1985. (Image credit: NASA) Don Lind, a former NASA astronaut who helped plan humanity's first moonwalk before launching on the space shuttle, has died…

It was second time unlucky for NASA as its Space Launch System rocket remained rooted to its Florida launch pad following a second scrub of its Moon mission. Once again, the countdown was fraught with drama when over-pressure warnings were triggered in the liquid oxygen and hydrogen lines as engineers…

Following a failed attempt earlier this week, NASA has once again delayed the start of its Artemis 1 Moon mission. The agency was forced to scrub Saturday’s launch after staff at Kennedy Space Center failed to fix a persistent leak in a liquid hydrogen connection point on the agency's next-generation…