SpaceX will try another Starship launch today
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The agency still has big decisions to make, but the preliminary mission plans include some interesting choices.
As humanity's first trip to the moon in over 50 years, Artemis II was a special mission that sent four astronauts farther from Earth than anyone had gone previously. This was Artemis's first crewed mission after a 2022 test flight, and future missions ...
NASA is already preparing for the launch of Artemis III, no earlier than late 2027, following the successful launch of the Artemis II rocket from Florida's Space Coast on April 1. Artemis II was the first crewed mission of the Artemis program,
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NASA says Artemis II Orion spacecraft facing something weird on the way to the moon: Toilet failure
Over the past 24 hours, NASA pulled off a historic liftoff with Artemis 2 on April 1, 2026, sending the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft Integrity on a free-return lunar flyby with four astronauts aboard.
NASA’s Artemis II mission has yet to return to Earth—it will do so on Friday evening, splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego—but the agency is already nearing some key decisions on the next Artemis mission.