NASA to reveal Artemis 3 crew as preparations for lunar mission accelerate
The agency will reveal the faces of the Artemis III crew members and make important progress announcements about its lunar mission program during a June 9 broadcast event from Johnson Space Center in Houston. As mentioned above, the Artemis III mission…
Vikram’s ‘jump’ unlocks surface ‘layers’ near lunar south pole region
BENGALURU: When India’s lunar lander Vikram briefly lifted off and returned to the moon in 2023, it marked a small but significant moment in the Chandrayaan-3 mission. Now, brief “jumps” lasting about three minutes are helping…
Chandrayaan-2 data shows water buried on moon for billions of years is stable: international study
New Delhi: A new international study involving researchers from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), IISER and the Institute of Remote Sensing suggests that water ice deposits in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon are much more stable than…
‘Sticked to the window’: How Artemis 2 astronauts spent their first hours in Orion en route to the moon
Astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft spent the first hours after launch observing Earth and recording scenes from space, even as the mission successfully performed a critical engine burn to push toward the moon.Mission specialist Jeremy Hansen…
Artemis 2 launch: Why did the United States stop its moon landing mission? Everything you need to know about your new journey
The United States is preparing to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years artemis iimarking an important step in human lunar exploration after a long pause since the Apollo era. NASA’s Artemis 2 flyby mission to the…