The moon offers both the opportunity to gain ... and long-duration storage in space; the human landing system (HLS) and Orion mating; and HLS successful descent to and ascent from the lunar ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise for the agency and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space agency’s undertaking of the Artemis back-to-the-moon with ...

Target landing date: March 2 ... The uncrewed Artemis I mission successfully sent the Orion spacecraft around the moon and back in 2022. The first crewed mission, Artemis II, is scheduled ...

The space agency is aiming to use the Starship spacecraft, the upper stage of SpaceX’s launch system, as a moon lander that would ferry them from the Orion spacecraft — which launches atop SLS ...

That sent the craft in a spiral away from the sun, which it needed for power.Astrobotic was forced to abandon the attempted moon landing, but all was not lost."We thought we had lost the mission ...

The Lunar Pathfinder will relay communications between Earth and robotic mission hardware at the Moon as a commercial service. Image: SSTL Landing on the Moon is hard. Only five countries have ...

In the next five to ten years, we will see propulsion modules from Northern Ireland landing on the moon’s surface ... manufacturing the backbone of Orion’s European service module and leading ...

NASA agreed to provide two landing slots to Japan in ... In the inaugural Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft made an unmanned orbit of the moon in 2022.

You can also see where astronauts, rovers and landers have ventured with our Apollo landing sites observing guide. You can prepare for the next full moon or eclipse with our guides on how to ...

Astronauts aboard Artemis II will manually pilot the Orion spacecraft during its flight around the Moon. While the spacecraft is primarily autonomous, crew members will test its handling to prepare ...