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NASA’s Artemis II Mission Begins Its 10-Day Lunar Journey

Live Updates: NASA’s Artemis II Mission Begins Its 10-Day Lunar Journey

A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that will go around the moon since 1972.

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Watch Artemis II launch on NASA’s first crewed moon mission in 50 years

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NASA’s Artemis II lifts off on historic moon mission

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Liftoff! NASA's mighty Artemis II rocket launches, sending astronauts toward moon

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending four astronauts on a trip around the moon.

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NASA launches four astronauts on world's first crewed lunar mission in half a century

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NASA’s Artemis II With 4 Astronauts Aboard Lifts Off For Historic Lunar Space Mission

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Artemis 2 launch LIVE: NASA's Moon mission launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida

The four astronauts are inside the Orion capsule on humanity's first Moon mission in more than five decades.

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'Great view': Nasa spacecraft orbiting Earth after spectacular launch on Moon mission

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NASA counts down for first crewed lunar mission in half a century

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Can NASA launch a nuclear mission to Mars by 2028?

The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency

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Proposed Science Themes for NASA's Fifth New Frontiers Mission

Suggested Citation: "4 Upcoming New Frontiers 5 Announcement of Opportunity." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Proposed Science Themes for NASA's Fifth New Frontiers Mission. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Behind-the-scenes secrets of NASA mission control

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.

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Mission Science Workshop, the mad-scientist garage for San Francisco

Mission Science Workshop is big. Big enough that one of its front windows, looking out onto the corner of Mission Street and Excelsior Avenue, fits a 35-foot gray whale skeleton known as “Gracie,” which has been retrofitted into a puzzle so that it can ...

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Moment of Science: NISAR Mission

July 30, 2025: A rocket launch from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center sees two countries embark on a joint project for the ages. India may not be a country you picture much for space exploration, but this undertaking may well change that perception.

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News on science-mission

ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski captured these stunning timelapse videos during his 20-day stay aboard the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 4, known as Ignis. Filmed from the Cupola—the ... Pandora, the latest in ...

A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter.

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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander successfully touches down on the moon

An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas-based Firefly Aerospace only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a feat. Firefly’s 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) Blue Ghost ...

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Museum of Science, Boston Enters the Metaverse With New Roblox Experience “Mission: Mars”

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Museum of Science, Boston is making its first move into the world of immersive online education with its launch of “Mission: Mars,” an educational experience on Roblox, a global platform connecting millions of people ...