NASA to roll out Artemis II rocket this weekend
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The first human spaceflight to the vicinity of the Moon since December 1972 is set to roll out to Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The Orion spacecraft and its associated Space Launch System rocket,
Dr. Ken Kremer, a research chemist, joined the conversation to provide context on the upcoming Crew-11 mission, the Artemis II project and the new administrator
During President Trump’s first term in office, he signed Space Policy Directive 1, signaling the administration’s desire to bring American astronauts back to the moon. This directive, and similar ones, later became Project Artemis, the lunar campaign ...
NASA and the Energy Department are developing a nuclear reactor to be used on the moon's surface, with the project set to power lunar missions as soon as 2030.
Xu Wang, senior researcher at the lab and a CU Boulder physics lecturer, is leading the DUSTER proposal. He said in the lab’s December statement on the funding that the project will help NASA better grasp how the dust and plasma environment works at the Lunar South Pole, where the Artemis missions will land.