NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission
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NASA officials have outlined possible Cape Canaveral launch timing scenarios for the Artemis II moon astronauts and the ISS-bound Crew-12 astronauts.
China’s program is centrally directed and tightly controlled by the state, while the U.S. approach is intentionally open and designed so partners can operate within a shared framework.
This past weekend, the Artemis II rocket was rolled out to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. It is to take humans to the moon for the first time since Apollo.
Thunder Bay-born filmmaker Laura-Lynn Petrick has directed the music video for Emm Gryner's new song, Touch the Sky, which celebrates the upcoming Artemis II moon mission, which will include Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is celebrating the upcoming Artemis II mission by holding a Facebook Live presentation at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 with engineers connected with the first crewed mission toward the moon since 1972’s Apollo 17.
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Artemis II mission will take bone marrow cells on thumb-drive-sized chips to the Moon
After returning to Earth, these cells from the AVATAR experiment will reveal how space radiation and microgravity affect the human body.
Following the first human journey around the moon in more than half a century, all eyes will be on the heat shield that will protect the crew as they return to Earth — a heat shield, which was damaged on the last mission,
NASA had planned to run its wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II mission at Kennedy Space Center as early as Saturday, but it will have to thread the needle before temperatures drop below the agency’s limits for the tanking test.