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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. NASA instructed crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to return to planned operations after …
Read More »NASA provides status update for Artemis II launch
Started 5 minutes ago News TKNASA holds a news conference in Florida on Sunday ahead of the planned April 1 launch of the Artemis II moon mission. The four-member crew, including Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, is in quarantine ahead of the 10-day journey that will send them around the moon …
Read More »NASA targeting no earlier than April 1 to send astronauts around the moon in Artemis II mission
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. After several delays to the mission that will take four astronauts around the moon, NASA held …
Read More »NASA moon rocket suffers setback likely to delay March launch: officials
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback on Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts’ first lunar …
Read More »NASA rolls out giant rocket ahead of astronauts’ moon mission
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. It’s been 52 years since humans last visited the moon, but that’s about to change. NASA’s …
Read More »Apollo 13 commander and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell dead at 97
James (Jim) Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on Thursday in Lake Forest, Ill., NASA said in a statement on Friday. “Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach …
Read More »NASA faces cuts to rocket program and lunar space station in Trump’s 2026 budget
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to axe key parts of NASA’s moon program in favour of commercial alternatives and his Mars-focused agenda, targeting an array of established projects in a proposed $6-billion US cut to the space agency’s overall budget for next year. The “skinny” — or outline — version …
Read More »NASA astronauts head home on SpaceX capsule after drawn-out International Space Station stay
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission. Wilmore and Williams, two veteran …
Read More »NASA SPHEREx telescope launched to study universe’s origins
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ingredient for life. The U.S. space agency’s megaphone-shaped SPHEREx, short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of …
Read More »NASA launches satellite for mission to map water on the moon
A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify places on the moon’s surface where water exists — for example, in the permanently shadowed craters at the lunar poles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral carrying NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer …
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