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After weeks of delays, NASA is finally launched a historic flight Wednesday to send a crew of four astronauts on a trailblazing nine-day trip around the moon and back. The Artemis II mission — with ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When a cat was spotted intently “watching” NASA’s Artemis II mission, the adorable moment quickly blasted off on social ...

NASA will follow up the success of the unmanned Artemis I mission by sending a four-man crew on an exploration and testing trip round the moon. NASA plans on sending humans back to the moon before the ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 2 mission stands at 322 feet tall. The SLS is NASA's most powerful rocket, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust. While massive, the SLS is ...

More than 50 years after the final Apollo mission, NASA today launched Artemis II, the first crewed mission to travel around the moon, as the full pink moon rose. Lifting off from Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will take an astronaut crew around the Moon rolls out to the launchpad. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images The next U.S. trip to the Moon isn’t about planting a ...

The mission, called Space Reactor 1 Freedom, will test advanced nuclear electric propulsion. Upon reaching Mars, the spacecraft would deploy helicopters to explore the planet from the air. This ...

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Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

NASA is hitting the accelerator on space missions and moon trips in the hopes of achieving some big firsts — a permanent moon base and an interplanetary spacecraft harnessing nuclear propulsion. Over ...

NASA is racing to establish a permanent human presence on the moon as the U.S. looks to beat China's ambitions on the lunar surface amid intensifying competition in space. The Trump administration’s ...