Despite the Blue Origin explosion setback for NASA this week, its plan to return to the moon took a giant leap forward, ordering rovers for its planned lunar base. Kris Van Cleave has more details. Source link
NASA planning 3 moon missions this year in race to build lunar city – CBS News Watch CBS News NASA is planning three new moon missions this year as the race to build a lunar city takes shape. NASA officials are hoping to maintain a presence on the south pole of the lunar surface. CBS … Read more
Eye Opener: Artemis set to splash down after historic lunar mission – CBS News Watch CBS News NASA’s Artemis II will splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday evening. Plus, the U.S. and Iran are set for high-level peace talks this weekend. All that and all that matters in … Read more
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
Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut, joins with CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood to discuss what the Artemis II lunar flyby means to him. Source link
The crew of Artemis II set a record Monday for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth, as the spacecraft swung around the far side of the moon. Shortly after traveling 248,656 miles away from Earth, breaking the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970, Artemis mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said he and his … Read more
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The Artemis II crew is set to loop around the moon on Monday during its historic nine-day trip. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood and Joe Rao, an associate astronomer at New York’s Hayden Planetarium, join with more. Source link
How Artemis II astronauts prepared to study the moon during the lunar flyby – CBS News Watch CBS News “CBS Mornings” gets a behind-the-scenes look at how Artemis II crew members prepared to study the moon during Monday’s scheduled lunar flyby. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source link
It’s official: The Artemis II astronauts have arrived in the moon’s cosmic neighborhood. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The crew’s Orion capsule entered what’s known as the lunar sphere of influence at around 12:41 a.m. ET Monday, crossing into the region of space where the … Read more