President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with Artemis 2 astronauts (Photo/AP) US President Donald Trump met with NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts at the White House on Wednesday, hosting the astronauts shortly after they completed a historic 10-day mission around the moon.The crew includes astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian … Read more
For most of their time in space, astronauts are connected to Earth through an invisible communications network: voice, information and constant assurance from mission control. However, for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, there is a decisive point at which all these connections disappear. The astronauts inside the Orion capsule were silent for about 40 minutes as … Read more
Artemis 2 launches on Thursday. NASA’s Artemis 2 mission successfully performed a critical engine burn late Thursday, sending its crew out of Earth orbit and on the path to the moon, a major leap forward for human spaceflight.The translunar injection took place about 25 hours after liftoff, and three U.S. astronauts and one Canadian astronaut … Read more
It has been more than 50 years since the last Apollo mission, and now there are only 48 hours left before NASA’s Artemis 2 manned return to the moon. The historic 10-day mission marked the first crewed launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, carrying four pioneering astronauts around the moon. … Read more
NASA’s goal of sending astronauts back to the moon is gathering pace, but there’s a change that’s affecting major players in the space industry. As of February 2026, the agency announced plans to expand the Artemis mission, adding an additional flight in 2027 and planning a lunar landing annually thereafter. SpaceX’s powerful Starship is taking … Read more