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Artemis II Flight Day 10: Crew Completes Final Burn Before Splashdown 

By |2026-04-10T15:16:00-04:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover show a photo of Earth taken just moments after the Orion spacecraft ignited its thrusters for a final burn for 8 seconds, producing a change in velocity of 4.2 feet-per-second and pushing Artemis II toward Earth. NASA At 2:53 p.m. EDT, the Orion spacecraft ignited its thrusters for 8 seconds, producing a change in velocity of 4.2 feet-per-second and pushing Artemis II toward [...]

New Perspective of Home

By |2026-04-10T12:33:00-04:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

NASA Seen during Artemis II’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, the Moon and Earth align in the same frame, each partially illuminated by the Sun. The Moon’s surface appears in sharp detail in the foreground, while Earth sits much farther away, smaller and softly lit in the background. A faint reflection in the spacecraft [...]

Artemis II Flight Day 10: Crew Sets for Final Burn, Splashdown

By |2026-04-10T11:38:00-04:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

(April 6, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Astronaut Jeremy Hansen (far left) and NASA astronauts Christina Koch (center left), Reid Wiseman (center right), and Victor Glover (right) – pauses to wave after a live conversation with President Donald J. Trump following their historic lunar flyby during Flight Day 6. [...]

Artemis II Flight Day 9: Second Return Correction Burn Complete

By |2026-04-10T00:02:00-04:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , |

art002e016204 (April 6, 2026) – NASA astronaut and Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover pictured here in the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II lunar flyby. Glover and his fellow crewmates spent approximately seven hours taking turns at the Orion windows capturing science data to share with their team back on Earth. At closest approach, they [...]

I Am Artemis: Dan Florez

By |2026-04-09T17:45:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , |

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Dan Florez Listen to this audio excerpt from Dan Florez, test director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. At 1:47 a.m. EST November 16, 2022, as the Artemis I engines ignited, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Dan [...]

Indoor Testing Facilities available at the NASA Unmanned Autonomy Research Complex (NUARC)

By |2026-04-09T17:21:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

WindShaper April 8, 2025A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.NASA/John Melton April 9, 2025The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover’s deck on Feb. 20, 2021.NASA/JPL-Caltech A large WindShaper fan array is available for dynamic low-speed and hovering flight research.  [...]

Starstruck

By |2026-04-09T16:29:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

A stunning snapshot in time. The Artemis II crew captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way.NASA The Artemis II crew captured this photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026. The Milky Way’s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central [...]

Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility

By |2026-04-09T15:32:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 Min Read Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility PIA26747 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching the Artemis II… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching the Artemis II Mission Unfold at JPL’s Space Flight Operations Facility JPEG (66.13 MB) Description [...]

The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal

By |2026-04-09T15:28:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

2 Min Read The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal PIA26746 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal The Deep Space Network… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads The Deep Space Network Acquires Artemis II Signal JPEG (62.03 MB) Description A graphical representation of the Deep Space Network’s [...]

Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition

By |2026-04-09T15:17:00-04:00April 9th, 2026|Categories: NASA News|Tags: , , , , , , |

1 Min Read Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition PIA26744 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Watching Over the Deep Space… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Watching Over the Deep Space Network Before Artemis II Signal Acquisition JPEG (63.52 MB) Description Blanca [...]

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