NASA to return to moon with Artemis II lunar flyby
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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.
The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit a quarter of a million miles from here. Once there, the ...
NASA refers to the Moon as a 4.5-billion-year-old time capsule. The Artemis program will help lead the nation back to vigorous Moon exploration and staging. NASA said, “We are exploring the Moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions to Mars.”
After a fairly eventful mission to the Moon's surface, Charles Duke left several items on the Moon, and a message to whoever might find them in the future.
Fifty years after it was discarded into space, a team of astronomers believes they may have found the "Snoopy" lunar module from the 1969 Apollo 10 mission, according to Sky News. NASA's "Snoopy" lunar module was named after the cartoon dog and flew within ...
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NASA’s 1st crewed moon mission in 50 years could be weeks away, here’s what’s next
For the first time in half a century, a crew of astronauts is on the verge of heading back to the Moon, not to land, but to rehearse the journey that will eventually put human footprints on the lunar surface again.
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (WHNT) — 56 years ago today, the Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into space to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later. Apollo 10 launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969. This flight was the first ...