NASA, Artemis and the moon
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NASA is once again shooting for the Moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 2026, NASA will launch its Artemis II mission, using the Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send a crewed spacecraft,
NASA's Artemis II crew is ready for their 10-day moon mission, with launch scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, and an 80% 'go' weather forecast.
In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around the moon.
More Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) alumni have become NASA astronauts than any other graduate school in the country,
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave Welcher/Hulton Archive/Getty Images NASA's space shuttle ...
Space missions can succeed or fail from the support they get from mission control. Here, we look at the changing shape of Nasa's most important room in space.