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Four small pieces of the moon on a NASA spacecraft have come closer to the lunar surface than they have been in over 50 years. The Apollo 11 samples return home was part of the Artemis 1 mission.

The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions, the first of which could fly in just over 18 months.

The Orion spacecraft could be on its first trip to the moon on the Artemis I mission in less than a month, but teams at Kennedy Space Center continue to prep the next capsules planned for human missions.

The spacecraft, due to launch uncrewed atop NASAs new mega moon rocket on Saturday, has cost more than $18 billion to build and will be used for the US space agencys Artemis programme.

The Orion spacecraft will build on a half a century of spaceflight science to carry humanity beyond the limits of the Earth’s orbit, back to the moon, and to Mars.

The Space Launch System will one day propel humans to the moon

On the 55th anniversary of NASAs fatal Apollo 1 fire, the agencys lessons learned live on as Orion aims for the moon.

Почему американцы больше не летают на Луну и когда они намерены туда вернуться.

Roscosmos, NASA celebrate historic launch anniversaries while looking to the future April 12, 2021 Today, Roscosmos is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Vostok-1 mission, which launched Yuri Gagarin and the first human spaceflight, while NASA simultaneously commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the world’s first reusable spacecraft, when John Young and Bob Crippen embarked on the most ambitious test flight in history aboard the shuttle Columbia. The anniversaries arri...

Credits: NASA NASA has selected four new additions to its cadre of flight directors to oversee operations of the International Space Station. The newest inductees in the class of 2021 are Diane Dailey, Chloe Mehring, Fiona Turett, and Brandon Lloyd. They will work in the Mission Control Center of NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston to lead teams of flight controllers, engineers, and countless professionals, both agencywide and internationally. Following a rigorous training program that includ...