NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) continues to make progress toward its Artemis 2 mission planned for next year; SLS is ...

After it launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Artemis II is “going to fly 600,000 miles around the moon and back to Earth,” said Stan Love, a veteran NASA astronaut who will serve as ...

Despite political uncertainty about the future of NASA’s overall effort to return humans to the moon, the hardware for the next Artemis mission continues to take shape. NASA and industry ...

CLPS injected badly needed funds and tech support into innovative lunar projects — almost as a sideshow to the bloated, bureaucratic Artemis 1.0 “Return to the moon” program. Yet now ...

The space agency pledged five years ago that its Artemis program would achieve both goals, while also putting the first non-American astronaut on the moon. But references to this have been ...

NASA on April 4, 2025 released its long-awaited mission patch for the first mission to fly astronauts to the moon in more than 50 years. To celebrate, the Artemis 2 insignia was projected that ...

"I'd like nothing more than to see this Artemis II crew get around the moon, and then they're back home watching their friends walk on the moon," said nominee Jared Isaacman. During the three-hour ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together major elements of the rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission with the first humans to the moon in more ...

for the Artemis program within 12 months. Ever since, Intuitive Machines, Venturi Astrolab, and Lunar Outpost have raced to meet the impending deadline to deliver the best moon car plan possible.

Along with the president's call to eventually send astronauts to Mars, senior advisor Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has called NASA's Artemis moon program a "distraction" and "jobs-maximizing ...

The next astronauts to fly to the moon now have a mission patch to represent their history-making journey. NASA on Thursday (April 3) debuted the official Artemis 2 insignia, its first emblem for ...

Artemis II, aiming to send astronauts around the moon, is scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026. NASA displayed the Artemis II mission patch design on the walls of the giant Vehicle Assembly ...