The four Artemis II astronauts, freshly back from a historic trip around the moon, flew back to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday to cheers and applause from family members and hundreds of space center workers who gathered to welcome them home. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut … Read more
The countdown to launch of the Artemis II mission, NASA’s first piloted moonshot in half a century, proceeded smoothly Tuesday as engineers and technicians prepared the agency’s giant Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule for fueling and blastoff Wednesday evening. After clearing nonessential personnel from the “blast danger area” and verifying rocket … Read more
NASA on Wednesday is set to roll its enormous Space Launch System rocket back to the hangar for repairs, a move that will delay the launch of four astronauts on a long-awaited flight around the moon by at least a month. The 322-foot-tall rocket has been sitting out at the launch pad at Florida’s Kennedy … Read more