The launch of NASA’s Artemis II against the backdrop of the Iran war is drawing parallels to another moon mission in the middle of a conflict nearly 60 years ago. Marsha Barrett, associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, joins to discuss. Source link
HOUSTON — Lunar love knows no bounds. 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. Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew asked permission to name one small, fresh crater after their capsule called … Read more
HOUSTON — Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious … Read more
The Artemis program’s Space Launch System has a maximum speed of more than 24,000 miles per hour, but it still isn’t fast enough to escape comparisons to Apollo 11. Yet, those preparing the SLS (to use its NASA-designated acronym) have loftier ambitions than matching the Apollo program in taking humans to the moon and returning … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable. The world’s first lunar visitors orbited … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Lunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are providing a fresh take on the moon’s mysterious magnetic field, scientists reported Wednesday. Samples to be retrieved by future moonwalkers in NASA’s new Artemis program should yield even more clues. Four Artemis astronauts are expected to fly around … Read more