The mission is scheduled to take place no earlier than April 2026. Four astronauts are intended to carry out a flyby of the Moon and return to Earth, becoming the first crew to travel beyond low ...
Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest. And even that would be challenging. By Jonathan Corum The distance ...
A fascinating letter by Neil Armstrong revealing how he would look out for aliens when landing on the moon has come to light 56 years on. Three months before the Apollo 11 mission, the astronaut ...
Astronauts aboard Artemis II will manually pilot the Orion spacecraft during its flight around the Moon. While the spacecraft is primarily autonomous, crew members will test its handling to prepare ...
Changes to the schedules of the crewed Artemis II and Artemis III missions to the moon have been announced by NASA. The agency say they will not send astronauts back to the surface of the moon ...
These include vacuum chambers that replicate the lunar atmosphere and terrain analogs that emulate the moon's surface. Wearing spacesuits and using tools similar to those employed by astronauts ...
Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will take Poland’s national flag and traditional pierogi dumplings on his upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS), he announced ...
The Lunar New Year occurs on the second new moon that follows the Winter Solstice ... Like billions of other people around the world, the astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station (or ...