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NASA's Orion spacecraft snaps a selfie on its journey beyond the far side of the moon

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that ...

NASA's Space Launch System rocket for moon-bound Artemis II mission fully stacked at Kennedy Space Center

Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA did manage to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back ...

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.
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NASA just got the Orion spacecraft that will fly astronauts around the moon on Artemis 2 in 2026

The next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon has been delivered to the only space agency on Earth to ever successfully fly astronauts to our nearest celestial neighbor. Orion, the capsule that ...

NASA races to keep Artemis II on schedule, even when workers aren’t being paid

Federal civil servants and NASA contractors are not getting paid during the shutdown, even if agency leaders have deemed ...
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NASA Seeks Volunteers to Track Orion’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby

NASA is seeking volunteers (commercial ground station operators) to passively track the Orion capsule during the Artemis II mission using one-way Doppler tracking measurements. This initiative ...
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Trump budget proposal: NASA's SLS rocket, Orion and science on chopping block

The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space capsule may be limited, as a White House budget proposal for the space agency aims to phase out the overbudget SLS after just two ...