EDWARDS, Calif. — The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to return Friday from their trip to the moon. When they do, they will slam into Earth’s atmosphere at over 32 times the speed of sound — and will do so using a reentry technique that has yet to be tested in real-world scenarios. In 2022, NASA sent…
NASA’s Artemis II crew, farther from Earth than any humans before them, are preparing for their event-filled six-hour flyby of the moon after five days traveling through space. At approximately 11 a.m. Pacific time, the crew reached another milestone: At more than 248,655 miles from our pale blue dot, no humans have ever traveled farther…
The Artemis II crew is almost at the moon, and the astronauts spent this weekend carrying out preparations for their lunar flyby on Monday. That included manual piloting demonstrations, reviewing their science objectives for the six-hour observation period and evaluating their space suits, which are there for life support in the event of an emergency…
On April 1, 2026, at 6:35 PM EDT (4:05 AM IST, Thursday, April 2, 2026), the Artemis II moon mission launched successfully from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States. For the first time in over 50 years, humans are leaving Low Earth Orbit and heading back to the Moon. Source link
For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon. NASA’s colossal Space Launch System rocket lifted off at 3:35 p.m. Pacific time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start of the 10-day Artemis II mission. In the hours and minutes leading up to launch,…
On Wednesday, for the first time since 1972, NASA is attempting to launch astronauts to the moon. The space agency is targeting a 3:24 p.m. Pacific time launch of the colossal Space Launch System rocket with four astronauts aboard. Once off the ground, the crew — including Southern California native Victor Glover — will fly…
“I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years.” The remark by Wilbur Wright now reads less like doubt and more like a reminder of how rapidly human ambition can outpace expectation. Just two years later, on a cold December morning in 1903, he and…
Purple potato grown in microgravity aboard ISS. A strange, tentacled object floating aboard the International Space Station recently sent the internet into a frenzy, with many mistaking it for something straight out of a science fiction film. The eerie, purple, egg-shaped form with tendril-like growths quickly went viral, prompting reactions ranging from curiosity to outright…
Spring equinox celebrations at Stonehenge At 10:01 GMT this morning, something happened that has been happening for 4.5 billion years, and yet remains quietly astonishing: Earth arrived at the precise point in its orbit where neither pole leans toward the Sun. For one suspended instant, our restless, tilted planet was perfectly balanced relative to its…