Items tagged with artemis ii

When the Artemis II's four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture that ensures one glitch never becomes a... Read more...
More than five decades after the last human set foot on the lunar surface, NASA’s Artemis II mission has provided a breathtaking new perspective of our home world and its celestial neighbor through a series of historic images. The... Read more...
NASA’s Artemis II mission has officially shattered the record for the farthest human spaceflight, but for those watching from the ground, perhaps one of the most relatable milestones involves a device found in millions of pockets: the... Read more...
The Artemis II mission has successfully proven that while humanity can conquer the vacuum of space, it can be utterly defeated by a stuck toilet and Microsoft Outlook. Hours into flight, Orion spacecraft Commander Reid Wiseman delivered a... Read more...
The crew of Artemis II is currently navigating the ultimate test of human endurance, proving that even a quarter-million-mile journey to the moon cannot escape the frustrations of a broken bathroom. While the mission marks humankind's... Read more...
SpaceX has confirmed an orbital anomaly involving a Starlink satellite that fragmented into dozens of pieces, raising fresh concerns about space debris even as the company maintains that the event poses no threat to major upcoming missions... Read more...
The ground at Kennedy Space Center began to hum yesterday evening as the crawler-transporter lurched into motion, beginning the slow, four-mile journey to return the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the... Read more...
It's probably no secret that NASA is planning on taking astronauts back to the Moon, but now the space agency is inviting the public to play a role in the upcoming 2026 Artemis II mission. No, they're not taking paid ride-along civilians... Read more...
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the names of the four astronauts who will be aboard the upcoming Artemis II mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to fly by the Moon in over 50 years. Apollo 8 was the... Read more...
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) are set to announce the four astronauts who will partake in the Artemis II mission that will send the crew and spacecraft around the moon and back to Earth. Artemis II is the forerunner to the first... Read more...