The Artemis II crew pose for a group photo after viewing their Orion spacecraft on the USS John P. Murtha, after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on April 10, 2026.
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Jenni Gibbons will be lead capsule communicator for NASA’s Artemis III mission, Gordon Osinski is on the science team and Canada also contributes a robotic Lunar Utility Vehicle.
To sustainably survive on the Moon, the rock that stretches as far as the eye can see across its surface might well be able to provide us with the air we need to breathe.
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Jack Robinot, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Université de Perpignan Via Domitia; Alexis Paillet, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES); Stéphane Abanades, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Sylvain Rodat, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
As lunar missions are back in vogue with engineering more sustainable human presence on the Moon in mind, there’s no getting away from the fact that you can’t breathe on a satellite that has no atmosphere.
Data from the SLIM mission projected at JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus during the craft’s landing.
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Japan is one of several countries that weren’t part of the space race of the 1950s and 1960s looking toward the Moon. They’ve now become the 5th country to have landed on its surface.
China’s lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit 2, on the Moon, January 2019.
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