NASA Artemis I Makes History By Traveling Record Distance From Earth
On Friday, November 25, 2022, NASA Artemis I officially traveled further than any spacecraft that will carry humans by entering a distant retrograde orbit.
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On Friday, November 25, 2022, NASA Artemis I officially traveled further than any spacecraft that will carry humans by entering a distant retrograde orbit.
As NASA’s Artemis 1 mission keeps getting delayed, SpaceX plans to launch a separate mission apart from NASA to the moon a few days apart from the next planned Artemis launch.
A research published on August 31 in Nature Communications Biology found that the blood-forming stem cells of all fourteen astronauts in the study, who were part of NASA’s space shuttle program, contained DNA mutations.
On Monday, August 29, 2022, NASA is all set to launch the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission going back to the moon after 50 years since the Apollo mission.
On August 29, 2022, NASA will launch Artemis 1, the first space mission back to the Moon since Apollo in 1972.
NASA’s CAPSTONE mission, which will chart a new orbit around the moon that will hopefully be used for a future crewed lunar space station, is underway after a successful launch on Tuesday morning. Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle delivered the CAPSTONE satellite, which is roughly the size of a large microwave oven, to Earth orbit for step one of its lunar journey.
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo on Monday to discuss progress on collaborative lunar missions for humans and robots.
For many years, the biggest challenge to traveling deeper into space and our Solar System has been the ability to grow plants outside of the Earth’s surface. Scientists used moon soil brought back from the early Apollo missions to grow plants successfully for the first time ever.
