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Advocates for space science research are concerned about job losses and cuts to funding at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
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Artemis 2 is NASA’s moon-first bet, and Mars is on pause
NASA is on the verge of sending astronauts back toward the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, and that choice is reshaping the rest of its exploration agenda. With Artemis 2 poised to fly before any new human mission to Mars is seriously funded,
SLS and the Orion spacecraft are fully stacked together inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center. Once final tests are complete, the launch vehicle will be rolled out onto the pad at Launch Complex-39A, which should take about 10 hours.
NASA's Artemis II mission, set to launch on Feb. 6, will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any human has traveled in decades
In just the next few years, NASA aims to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972, including the first woman to voyage to the lunar surface. Following in the footsteps of the Apollo program, this 21st century lunar campaign, called Artemis, could return humans to the moon’s surface as soon as 2025.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville objected to a resolution condemning the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol during the certification of Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, reports AL.com’s Patrick Darrington.
NASA’s future missions face sabotage risks from China’s tech strategy. Leaders must act now—or risk losing the space race for good.