Artemis II rocket mission to moon
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Depending on the timing, NASA could launch a fresh crew to the space station while four other astronauts are flying around the moon.
The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept around for the Space Shuttle Program. Now, the vehicle is back to its original purpose of positioning Moon-bound rockets on their launch pads.
In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds,
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
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China releases first practical software to keep time on the moon
As missions to the Moon multiply, keeping time there is no longer a theoretical problem. Researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing have released what they describe as the world’s first practical software for lunar timekeeping.