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Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return humans to the Moon.
Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A planetary geologist explains the benefits.
Jeremy Hansen will be the first non-American to fly to the moon — and will make Canada only the second country in the world to send an astronaut into deep space.
NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin have all successfully launched superheavy-lift rockets. These massive vehicles are designed to carry a much heavier load.
Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company Blue Origin is now the second, after SpaceX, to land a rocket booster for reuse.
The Space Launch System is a crucial part of America’s plans to return to the Moon.
Nasa’s Moon programme has been hit by delays, while China aims to land by 2030.
There’s intense competition between the US and China to establish bases on the Moon.
After its fourth delay, the Artemis 1 launch is now scheduled for Nov. 16, 2022. NASA has a history of missing launch deadlines, but the private sector is slowly making launches more reliable.
SpaceX is due to test fly its Starship in the coming days.
Whatever America’s exact strategy in space, it doesn’t seem to involve investing in a new International Space Station
The brand new launch system announced by NASA last week has received wide mainstream media coverage – and why wouldn’t it? It is a plan for a giant rocket, after all. The proposed Space Launch System (SLS…
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