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Footage shows the 13th mission of Artemis 1, where the Orion spacecraft captures Earth slipping behind the moon. The footage ...
During the flyby, the capsule was more than 230,000 miles away from Earth. The names Orion and Artemis stem from Greek mythology: Orion is a giant huntsman, and Artemis is the twin of the Greek ...
The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in ...
In a review of 38 current NASA projects that cost $250 million or more, the Government Accountability Office found ...
The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and ...
If successful on Artemis II, the tech could beam 4K video and rich data back to Earth at record speed, proving deep-space ...
Although published timelines call for Artemis 3 to land on the Moon by the end of 2026, NASA’s internal baseline for the landing has been pushed back to February 2028. Many engineering ...
Using gravity to get back home: Another important part of the Artemis II mission will see the astronauts utilizing the Earth-Moon gravity field to propel the spacecraft back towards Earth.
Artemis II is a much more complicated endeavor than Starliner, so if anything goes wrong for the Artemis II crew between Earth and the moon, the contingency plans are much more limited.
Artemis II will be the first crewed mission of the Artemis program, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to orbit the moon over the course of 10 days, before returning to Earth.
NASA on Thursday postponed a mission to send four astronauts around the moon and back to Earth until April 2026. The move is the latest setback for Artemis, the government space agency’s return ...