Moon Mission

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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…

On Wednesday morning during the quiet hours of twilight, a 32-story rocket blasted into space from a launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. In a burst of flames and smoke, the citrus-colored vessel brightened the dark sky with a synthetic sunset as it propelled a little white spacecraft toward none…

NASA’s Artemis I mission is finally on its way to the Moon, a feat that marks the debut of the world’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and secures a major milestone in the agency’s quest to return humans to the lunar surface in the coming years.  The…

The 26-day Artemis I flight is designed to test the SLS rocket and the Orion capsule before missions with humans onboard. The spacecraft is carrying a set of mannequins laden with sensors to study conditions during the flight and to measure radiation levels throughout the mission. The Orion spacecraft will…

Home News Spaceflight A satellite operated by Capella Space captured this synthetic aperture radar view of NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 2022, two days before the mission's planned liftoff. (Image credit: Capella Space) A sharp-eyed satellite captured…