Artemis

Work Underway on Large Cargo Landers for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Under NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency and its partners will send large pieces of equipment to the lunar surface to enable long-term ...

Astronauts will plant cress, duckweed and brassica on the lunar surface on the Artemis III mission in 2026

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA plans to grow samples of different plants in miniature lunar greenhouses  This will test whether plants could be grown in lunar colonies ...

NASA Artemis Mission Progresses with SpaceX Starship Test Flight

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Sophie Anderson

As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is working with ...

The Nikon Z9 Is the Camera of Choice for Humanity’s Return to the Moon

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Photo of the Moon courtesy of NASA Nikon Inc. and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to support NASA’s Artemis ...

NASA Tech Contributes to Soft Moon Landing, Agency Science Underway

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Sophie Anderson

Editor’s note: This release was updated Feb. 23, 2024, to add an image from the news conference and participant titles. For the ...

NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to better understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust, and its potentially damaging ...

NASA compiling lessons learned from Artemis 1

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA is wrapping up an effort to collect lessons learned from the Artemis 1 mission that address both technical ...

NASA SLS Exploration Upper Stage moving into qualification phase of development

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

28 As NASA pushes out the schedule for Artemis II and III, development of the first major upgrade to the agency’s Space ...

Artemis III launch delay could be inevitable, GAO study says

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Artemis missions are set to be some of the most iconic of the decade, finally putting human boots back on the ...

GAO report warns Artemis 3 landing may be delayed to 2027

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

WASHINGTON — The first crewed landing of NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration effort is unlikely to happen before 2027, a report by the ...