4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
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OTD In Space - January 4: NASA Cancels Apollo 20 Moon Mission

On 1970, NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 moon mission. This came just six months after Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to ever set foot on the moon. Instead of launching another crew of astronauts to the moon,

Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission

The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept around for the Space Shuttle Program. Now, the vehicle is back to its original purpose of positioning Moon-bound rockets on their launch pads.

NASA outlines plan for imminent launch of Artemis human moon mission

In the days ahead, NASA could roll out the SLS rocket that will propel four astronauts on a journey around the moon. Here's the latest on Artemis 2.

NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

All systems go for rollout of 11-million-pound stack containing rocket for Artemis II mission

Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that hasn’t happened since December 1972: sending astronauts to the moon.

New NASA mission will be the first of its kind in over 50 years

A new NASA mission is set to see astronauts return to an area of 'deep space' that hasn't been visited in over 50 years. Despite the Trump administration revealing last year that the space agency's overall budget would be cut to its lowest since 2015, it still has big plans for 2026.
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Astonishing Restored Photos Show NASA's Pre-Apollo Missions In All Their Glory

When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth's climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar System, most people's minds go to the Apollo era, when the US space agency repeatedly put humans on the Moon. But Apollo was not ...
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See the Apollo space missions like you've never seen them before

These photos are out of this world. Thousands of images from the Apollo missions have been curated and re-released in a new gallery on Flickr. The images hail directly from NASA but have been reorganized by Kipp Teague, who started the Apollo Archive ...
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DOE, NASA Team Up to Develop Nuclear Reactor to Power Lunar Missions By 2030

The Department of Energy and NASA will jointly develop a fission surface power system that will be ready for launch by 2030.
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