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NASA unveils colossal Artemis moon rocket and the photos are insane
The first full look at NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket on the pad is the kind of sight that makes even jaded space fans stop scrolling. Bathed in floodlights and framed against the Florida night, the Space Launch System tower and its Orion spacecraft turn the launch complex into a cathedral of steel,
Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.
With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.
As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.
The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.
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NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly
As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.
NASA’s Artemis II rocket arrives at Launch Pad 39B, beginning final prelaunch tests ahead of the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, set for Feb. 2026.
On 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of the moon,
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft reached the Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday following a 4-mile, 12-hour crawl from the Vehicle Assembly Building.