NASA, Artemis and Space Launch System
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Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and Narrated by: David Ladd (AIMM) Animations by: Walt Feimer (KBRWyle) and Jonathan North (KBRWyle) Visualizations by: Kel Elkins (USRA) Mus
Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon.
NASA has confirmed the upcoming milestones for its historic Artemis II mission—the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, sending four astronauts on a lunar flyby for the first time in over 50 years—with rollout and Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) to set the stage for a potential launch in February.
NASA’s ESCAPADE spacecraft completed its second trajectory correction maneuver, setting up an Earth-proximity orbit before a 2026 Mars flyby, according to NASA reports.
NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) over the surface of the moon. Credit: Space.com | imagery credit: Credit :
LAUREL, Md. — Thirty-three minutes after midnight, scientists, engineers and well-wishers here at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory celebrated the moment that NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to a small, icy world ...