For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts are again training to fly around the moon, not as a distant dream ...
It’s been a long time coming. No human has ventured into deep space since the final Apollo mission in 1972, but that is about to change. Four astronauts – three Americans and a Canadian – will soon be ...
The Moon is not a fixed lantern in the sky but a slow-moving partner that is gradually edging away from Earth. That retreat is tiny on human timescales, yet over millions and billions of years it ...
While human missions to the moon will be facing Earth, on the other side of the moon, completely hidden from view, there will ...
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
What’s different about this 10-day test flight is not only that it returns astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the ...