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Roscosmos Progress 93 Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Ends Mission After Leaving the International Space Station Introduction The International Space Station continues…
Artemis II Flight Day 3: NASA Cancels First Outbound Trajectory Correction Burn as Orion Remains Perfectly on Course NASA’s Artemis…
Historic Artemis II: NASA Approves Translunar Injection Burn on Flight Day 2 – A Bright Leap for Lunar Exploration NASA’s…
Artemis II Flight Day 2: Orion Successfully Completes Translunar Injection Burn and Begins Historic Journey to the Moon NASA’s Artemis…
Artemis II Flight Day 4: Orion Crew Prepares for Historic Successful Lunar Flyby in Deep Space The NASA Artemis II…
Artemis II Flight Day 3: Orion Crew Prepares for Historic Successful Lunar Flyby Mission Artemis II Flight Day 3: Orion…
Artemis II Flight Day 4: Orion Crew Successfully Completes Manual Piloting Test in Deep Space The NASA Artemis II mission…
Artemis II Flight Day 5: Orion Crew Begins Critical Space Suit Demonstration Near the Moon The NASA Artemis II mission…
Artemis II Flight Day 5: Orion Crew Tests Space Suits and Prepares for Historic Successful Lunar Flyby The NASA Artemis…
Artemis II Flight Day 5: Orion Completes Critical Correction Burn Ahead of Lunar Flyby On Flight Day 5, the NASA…
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Artemis II already flew. NASA's Space Launch System lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts on a crewed flight around the Moon aboard Orion. The crew splashed down in the Pacific off San Diego on April 10, 2026, completing humanity's first lunar voyage since Apollo 17.
The four-person crew is NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch, joined by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Glover became the first person of color, Koch the first woman and Hansen the first non-American to travel around the Moon.
A crewed trip to the Moon takes about three days. Apollo astronauts typically reached lunar orbit in roughly 72 to 76 hours, covering about 240,000 miles. Artemis II took longer overall because Orion first checked out its systems in high Earth orbit, and its free-return path around the far side stretched the mission to nearly ten days.
Since 2022, Webb has spotted some of the earliest galaxies ever seen, formed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang. It has detected carbon dioxide, water vapor and other molecules in exoplanet atmospheres, revealed unexpected "little red dot" objects in the early universe, and captured record-sharp infrared images of star-forming nebulae.
NASA plans to retire the ISS around 2030 and guide it into a controlled reentry over a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean, likely in 2031. A SpaceX-built U.S. Deorbit Vehicle will steer it down so surviving debris falls safely at sea. Commercial space stations are expected to take over research in low Earth orbit.