Moon Mission

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NASA will host a news conference at 5 p.m. EST Monday, Nov. 28, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss the status of the uncrewed Artemis I flight test as the Orion spacecraft reaches the mid-point of its Moon mission and its farthest distance from Earth at…

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA’s Orion spacecraft, pictured by a solar array wingtip camera, with the moon in the background. Credit: NASA NASA’s unpiloted Orion moonship, sailing smoothly toward a remote lunar orbit after a spectacular low-altitude flyby Monday, is operating in near-flawless fashion, mission managers reported…

        | Updated: Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 12:43 NASA Artemis I Moon mission finally launched on November 19 from the Kennedy Space Center, taking the Orion spacecraft for a trip around the Moon. The spacecraft made a critical flyby to make sure it is placed in the…

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NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft has completed final maneuvers to place it in its target orbit around the Moon, refining its path in the orbit it arrived to last week...Read More

NASA's Orion spacecraft en route for the Moon, with the Earth in the background, in a photo released by NASA in November 2022. On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "exceeding performance expectations," NASA officials said on Friday. The spacecraft…

        | Published: Saturday, November 19, 2022, 11:06 NASA ordered the press not to photograph the launch site of its uber-expensive Space Launch System after it took off with the Artemis I Moon mission on Wednesday, November 16. Some reporters took to Twitter to share that NASA…

NASA's Orion spacecraft en route for the Moon, with the Earth in the background, in a photo released by NASA in November 2022 - Copyright AFP YAMIL LAGE On the third day after lifting off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is “exceeding performance expectations,” NASA officials…

Home News Spaceflight NASA's SLS rocket soars into the Florida early morning sky on the Artemis 1 mission. (Image credit: United Launch Alliance) NASA's new moon mission will bring science to multiple solar system destinations, a senior agency official said Wednesday (Nov. 16). Hours after the launch of Artemis 1…