NASA delays Artemis 2 moon launch to Mar.
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The buzz is building for NASA’s Artemis II mission that will send four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon. The highly anticipated endeavor will be the first crewed moon-bound flight since the final Apollo mission way back in 1972.
A NASA research plane made a belly landing at Houston's Ellington Airport on Tuesday morning after a mechanical issue, the space agency said. According to Bethany Stevens, NASA's press secretary, all crew members are safe after a WB-57 made a gear-up landing, meaning its landing gear was not fully deployed.
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NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly
As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.
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Learn how NASA’s satellite fleet helps provide weather Information for the missions on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 2016, NASA consolidated several programs into the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), designed to work with other federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The point was to keep watch on the skies and search for ...
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