Moon Mission

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 23 with additional information and NASA spokesperson quotes. NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket on Launch Complex 39B earlier this month. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky Forgoing another countdown rehearsal, NASA plans to return the first Space Launch System rocket to its assembly hangar at the Kennedy Space Center next…

(CNN)The Artemis I mega moon rocket has been fully fueled for the first time. The fourth attempt of a final prelaunch test started on Saturday and the rocket tanks were filled on Monday. The crucial test, known as the wet dress rehearsal, simulates every stage of launch without the rocket…

Enlarge / A rendering of SpaceX's Starship lander on the surface of the Moon. NASA For several years now, NASA has publicly discussed the initial phase of its Artemis Moon program. These first three missions, to be conducted over the next four or five years, are steps toward establishing a…

NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with tanking operations on Monday, June 20...Read More

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission will be the agency's first big step toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface.  Formerly known as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), Artemis 1 will be the first test flight of the agency's new Space Launch System megarocket and the Orion crew capsule. The SLS rocket…

NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lunar Flashlight — a small spacecraft to measure water ice in dark craters near the moon’s poles — will now launch as a piggyback payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late this year after delays caused it to miss a ride on…

It's time for NASA's astronauts to get some new space duds before they rocket off to set foot on the moon with the Artemis program. On Wednesday, NASA revealed it has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to develop new spacesuits for moonwalks and for spacewalks from the International Space…

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 27, to discuss the status of the next wet dress rehearsal test of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I…

Home News Spaceflight NASA's first Space Launch System, the Artemis 1 moon rocket, stands atop Launch Pad 39B during sunrise in this photo taken March 23, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky) While Artemis 1's rocket and spacecraft are back in the shop for a few more weeks, NASA has released…

So it’s easy to understand why many of the operational details of humans’ brains (and even the brains of mice and much simpler organisms) remain so mysterious, even to neuroscientists. People often think of technology as applied science, but the scientific study of brains is essentially applied sensor technology. Each…