Artemis

As Artemis II hurtles home, a global space race accelerates

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America is moonstruck once more. With Artemis II and its four crewmembers returning to Earth after a record-breaking, and visually spectacular, trip around the moon, the U.S. love affair with lunar exploration has been renewed. Something else from that era may have been renewed as well. In the punch-counterpunch style of the 1960s, a rival nation’s … Read more

NASA drops Artemis II moon mission playlist. These are the astronauts’ wake-up songs.

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As the Artemis II mission crew heads back toward Earth following a history-making trip around the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts‘ highly anticipated morning playlist. “You asked for it. Here it is,” NASA wrote Wednesday on social media, sharing the list via Spotify. “Each track was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a tradition … Read more

Artemis II astronauts follow Apollo tradition of naming lunar features after loved ones

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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

Artemis II astronauts head for home, wrapping up final tests and experiments

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Hurtling back toward Earth after a historic loop around the moon, the Artemis II astronauts worked through a relatively light day in space Wednesday, wrapping up a few final tests before packing up for re-entry and splashdown Friday. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen planned to hold … Read more