Moon Mission

NASA will host a pair of briefings on Wednesday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 5, to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission...Read More

Home News Spaceflight Technicians from NASA's Johnson Space Center test out a Canoo Gamma van prototype for the new Crew Transportation Vehicle to drive Artemis astronauts to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett) We now know what it may look like when…

NASA has revealed a possible launch window for its Artemis I Moon mission in a new trailer. The much-anticipated mission is expected to launch no earlier than August 29, 2022. To celebrate the upcoming launch, NASA created an exhilarating cinematic trailer, which we’ve embedded below. The Artemis I mission is…

MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer July 21, 2022Updated: July 21, 2022 12:40 p.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of5FILE - Rover alone, looking north, on the west edge of Mount Hadley is at upper right edge of picture, the most distant lunar feature visible is about…

NASA has set an aggressive launch target for its Artemis 1 Moon mission following the successful June 20th “wet dress rehearsal” fueling test of the SLS rocket that will carry the flight to space. In an interview with Ars Technica, Jim Free, associate administrator with the agency’s Explorations Systems Development…

Home News Spaceflight NASA plans to start rolling its Artemis 1 moon mission off the launch pad on Friday evening (July 1), and you can watch the slow-moving action live. The Artemis 1 stack — a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket topped by an Orion crew capsule — is expected to…

CAPSTONE in orbit near the Moon: Once released from Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus, CAPSTONE will use its propulsion system to travel for approximately three months before entering into orbit around the Moon. Credit: Illustration by NASA/Daniel Rutter Today (June 28, 2022) Rocket Lab launched a CubeSat on a historic…

NASA’s tiny CAPSTONE spacecraft has begun its long, history-making journey to the moon. The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia Peninsula of New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. EDT (0955 GMT;…

As a science writer, I'm very familiar with the unmatched excitement of musing about the moon. Honestly, I even feel awe while writing about the tiniest lunar update.  A headline like "The Moon Might Have a Trace of Something That Could Potentially Be Water But Probably Not" will do it…

NASA’s CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon...Read More