Artemis

NASA revamps Artemis moon landing program by modeling it after speedy Apollo

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NASA said Friday it is revamping its Artemis lunar exploration program to make it more like the fast-paced Apollo program a half-century ago, adding an additional training flight before attempting a lunar landing with a high-risk crew in two years. The overhaul in the flight lineup came just two days after NASA’s new Moon rocket … Read more

NASA’s new moon rocket Artemis II moves to the pad ahead of astronaut launch as early as February

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Cape Canaveral, Florida – NASA’s giant new moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first flyby of the moon in more than half a century. The round trip can start as early as February. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket began its mph (1.6 kph) crawl from the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle … Read more