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Artemis II Stacking – Booster Segment Lift – Timelapse

By |2024-11-25T19:08:54-05:00November 25th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Artemis II Stacking - Booster segment lift onto Mobile Launcher - Timelapse

Artist’s Concepts Depict SpaceX’s Starship HLS on the Moon for NASA Artemis

By |2024-11-20T19:09:07-05:00November 20th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

These artist’s concepts show SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working with SpaceX to develop Starship HLS to carry astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface and back for Artemis III and Artemis IV as part of the agency’s Artemis campaign. At about 165 feet (50 m), Starship HLS [...]

NASA Barge Departs Michoud with Hardware for Three Different Artemis Missions

By |2024-09-19T20:08:59-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Bound for Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA’s Pegasus barge departed the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Aug. 29 with multi-mission hardware for the Artemis campaign. Pegasus is ferrying hardware for three different crewed Artemis missions to the Space Coast. The SLS launch vehicle stage adapter for Artemis II was loaded onto [...]

Artemis Systems Are Ready to Fly Astronauts on This Week @NASA – March 10, 2023

By |2024-04-04T00:09:35-04:00April 4th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Artemis systems are ready to fly astronauts, a hot fire test of an Artemis rocket engine, and educating and inspiring the Artemis generation … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

Artemis II Crew Announcement – April 3, 2023

By |2024-04-03T12:09:05-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) announced, during an event on Monday, April 3, from NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on the Artemis II mission. The crew, comprised of NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman (Commander), NASA astronaut Victor Glover (Pilot), NASA astronaut Christina Hammock [...]

Artemis I Launches to the Moon (Official NASA Recap)

By |2024-04-03T12:09:04-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA’s Artemis I mission lifted off on Nov. 16, 2022 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B. This video includes highlights from the event. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the Space Launch System (SLS), is NASA’s most powerful rocket. It will send the uncrewed Orion spacecraft beyond the Moon, 280,000 miles from Earth, farther [...]

NASA and Czech Republic Sign Artemis Accords Agreements

By |2024-04-03T12:09:03-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On May 3, 2023, NASA senior leaders and Department of State officials for the Czech Republic signed Artemis Accords agreements for participation in the agency’s Artemis program. While NASA is leading the Artemis program, international partnerships will play a key role in achieving a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon while preparing to conduct [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:09:02-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

OpComm Delivery For Orion Artemis II

By |2024-04-03T12:09:01-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assemble on the Optical Communications System for the Artemis II mission on June 2, 2023. Optical communications is the latest space communications technology that is able to provide data rates as much as a hundred [...]

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