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Watch Live: Artemis II gives update ahead of landing Friday
NASA and the Navy are preparing to recover the astronauts and their Orion spacecraft. The crew will be rescued by the amphibious dock ship U.S.S. John P. Murtha.
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Artemis lunar mission expected to land back on Earth on Friday
NASA and the Navy are preparing to recover the astronauts and their Orion spacecraft, who will be recovered by the amphibious dock ship U.S.S. John P. Murtha.
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Artemis II crew breaks record for furthest distance humans have traveled from Earth
Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen honored the legacy of the Apollo missions in a message after the crew broke Apollo 13's record. The crew has traveled over 252,000 miles now.
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NASA shares new image of moon from lunar flyby mission
The photo includes the Orientale Basin, which is the first time humans have seen the entire lunar feature.
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NASA clears Artemis II crew to break from Earth's orbit and head for the moon
The Orion space capsule lifted out of Florida's Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night, marking the start of the first lunar mission in over 50 years. The last time the United States sent people to the moon was in the Apollo missions that ended in 1972.
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NASA's Artemis II crew successfully takes off in first lunar mission in over 50 years
Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told the Artemis crew that “the hopes and dreams of a new generation," are with them as they aim to reach a greater distance from Earth than anyone has before.
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NASA investigates potential battery issue ahead of lunar launch
Engineers are working to determine whether the issue was with a sensor or a battery itself, after one of the two batteries for the launch abort system was "out of temperature range."
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Watch Live: NASA launches astronauts in Artemis II lunar mission
The spacecraft was expected to launch from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 6:24 p.m. Eastern, but there has been a slight delay, with the countdown expected to resume shortly.
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Trump hails U.S. return to lunar missions with Artemis II launch
The Artemis II mission will see four astronauts fly past the moon and return to Earth after looping around the planet's sole natural satellite.
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U.S astronauts set to embark on historic return to lunar orbit in Artemis II mission
The voyage will be the first manned mission to lay eyes close to the moon since the end of the Apollo program, launched on December 7, 1972, and concluded on December 19, 1972. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent over three days on the lunar surface in the Taurus-Littrow valley, making them the last humans to walk on the Moon.
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NASA astronaut who suffered medical incident on ISS speaks out for first time
The space agency identified the astronaut as Mike Fincke, who was part of the four-person Crew-11 mission that also consisted of NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
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NASA eyes March 6 for Artemis II lunar mission after successful dress rehearsal
The final results of Thursday's rehearsal still need to come in before the mission is approved, but if given the go-ahead, NASA will launch astronauts around the moon for the first time since the Apollo program ended over 50 years ago.
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Obama appears to walk back comments on aliens
His clarification followed comments he made to podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen over the weekend