[ad_1] NASA aims to make a second attempt to launch its giant next-generation moon rocket on Saturday, Sept. 3, five days after a pair of technical issues foiled an initial try at getting the spacecraft off the ground for the first time, agency officials said on Tuesday. But prospects for success on Saturday appeared clouded […]
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[ad_1] Update: Since this article was published, NASA has announced that it will attempt another launch on Wednesday, September 3. “We don’t launch until its right,” said Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator, remarking on the aborted Artemis 1 launch shortly after the launch director announced that the mission is scrubbed. The mission has been postponed due […]
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[ad_1] Despite prevailing rainy conditions and the launch vehicle being struck by lightning, NASA has officially begun the countdown to the Artemis I launch which is scheduled to happen in a two-hour launch window that starts at 6.03 PM IST on Monday, August 29. The space agency will provide coverage of pre-launch, launch and post-launch […]
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[ad_1] 2030 will be the decade to watch for long-term settlement of the moon, and potentially Mars as well. But it all starts now, with the launch of Artemis I on August 29. Artemis I is an uncrewed test mission, but it’s the first step toward putting humans back on the moon since the 1972 […]
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[ad_1] After a gap of close to 50 years after the last Apollo mission, NASA plans to herald a new age of space exploration by returning to the Moon with the Artemis program, starting with the Artemis I launch scheduled for August 29. But that is not the only news that will interest space buffs. […]
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[ad_1] “We are going.” That is the catchphrase that NASA is using in the lead-up to the debut flight of its new moon rocket, which could launch as early as Monday at 8:33 a.m. Eastern time. It is a phrase repeated by agency officials, added as a hashtag on social media postings and proclaimed on […]
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[ad_1] Almost fifty years after the Apollo mission, NASA is gearing up to return humanity to the Moon with its Artemis program. Artemis I, an uncrewed mission that is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions, is scheduled for launch on August 29 and will test the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket […]
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[ad_1] A half century after the end of NASA’s Apollo era, the U.S. space agency’s long-anticipated bid to return astronauts to the moon’s surface remains at least three years away, with much of the necessary hardware still on the drawing board. But NASA aims to take a giant leap in its renewed lunar ambitions with […]
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[ad_1] Last week, NASA revealed some of the science and technology payloads that will be hitching a ride to deep space with the agency’s Artemis I moon mission. In the same week, a Russian cosmonaut had to cut short his spacewalk because of a space suit battery malfunction. Here is our recap of an exciting […]
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[ad_1] As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon as part of its Artemis missions, the space agency has identified 13 potential locations for landing crewed missions near the lunar South Pole of Earth’s sole natural satellite. Each of these regions has multiple potential landing sites for Artemis III, which will be the […]
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