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What Lies Beyond Artemis 2? These Other Missions Are Setting Their Sights on the Moon This Year—and on a Future With Humans in Space

After rounding the moon, viewing a solar eclipse and traveling farther than any human had before, the four astronauts of Artemis 2—the first manned lunar mission in more than five decades—will re-ente...

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9 reasons the Artemis II space mission keeps bringing people to tears

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NASA’s Artemis moon missions are a game changer for astronomy

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Artemis II Astronauts Follow Apollo Tradition of Naming Lunar Features After Loved Ones

Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 earlier this week, proposing deeply personal names for a pair of lunar craters.

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Crowds in Iran gather to mark 40 days since Supreme Leader killing

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Artemis II crew nears Earth after historic moon mission. Live updates

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Artemis II tracker: Live updates as astronauts spend last full day in space

At 6 a.m. Thursday, April 9, the astronauts were more than 162,000 miles from Earth and more than 118,000 miles from the moon.

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NASA Prepares for Artemis II Splashdown After Historic Moon Flyby

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Artemis II tracker. See where the astronauts are today before landing

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Office of Space Commerce releases mission authorization proposal

The Office of Space Commerce has rolled out its proposal for a “light touch” approach to mission authorization for new commercial space applications.

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Space missions spanned the solar system in 2024

From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space. The moon has been a hot destination for space agencies and private ...

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Purdue 1 mission to include autonomous space experiments

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University has announced the expansion of its 2027 Purdue 1 suborbital flight mission to include two autonomous research experiments focusing

Seven missions launched to test optimized data transfer from space

Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) have reached orbit, where they will demonstrate various applications aimed at improving how data is sent around and processed.

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Starfish Space raises $110M to scale up its satellite servicing missions

Starfish Space has raised $110 million to support its first satellite servicing missions and scale up operations for more business.

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NASA’s record-breaking crew earth-bound after trip around moon

NASA’s four Artemis astronauts swung behind the moon and are headed home, in a journey that shattered space travel distance records and brought people the closest they’ve been to the lunar surface in more than 50 years.