Artemis 1

NASA has successfully returned the Orion spacecraft to Earth. The uncrewed capsule touched down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the Mexican coast of Baja California around 12:40 p.m. ET Sunday (7:40 p.m. Kyiv), marking the completion of Artemis 1‘s historic mission. When returning to Earth, the capsule developed a ... Read more

On Monday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached its greatest distance from Earth, being 268,563 miles (approximately 432,210 km) away from our planet. This marks the halfway point of Artemis 1’s 25.5-day mission. The spacecraft will continue its journey around the Moon before returning back to Earth. Orion became the first spacecraft ... Read more

The NASA Orion spacecraft, which was launched in as part of the Artemis-1 mission, successfully completed one of the key maneuvers of its first flight — Moon flyby, during which it approached the lunar surface at a distance of 130 km, reports Engadget. On its way to the Moon, Orion ... Read more

After months of postponement, NASA still managed to send the unmanned Artemis-1 mission to the Moon. The SLS launch vehicle launched from the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning and sent the Orion spacecraft on a 25-day trip to the Moon and back. We are going. For the first time, ... Read more

The new launch date for the Artemis 1 mission is set for November 14, with a 69-minute launch window opening at 12:07 a.m. ET, NASA reported on its blog. In the event of an unforeseen situation, there are backup launch options on November 16th and 19th, with windows opening at 1:04 ... Read more

The long-awaited launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Artemis 1 mission has been postponed to mid-November after NASA abandoned its plans to launch on September 27 due to Hurricane Ian. The space agency has announced that it aims to launch Artemis 1 between November 12 and ... Read more

After completion of the successful test of the SLS launch vehicle‘s fuel system, NASA hoped to launch the Artemis 1 mission to the moon on September 27. However, this will not happen due to Tropical Storm Ian, reports Engadget. A storm formed over the central part of the Caribbean on ... Read more

The next test to launch mission Artemis 1 to the Moon may be already the next week. NASA has honored all the tasks that have been placed before it to make the test of the SLS rocket firing system successful. The space agency had to test adding supercooled fuel to ... Read more

The launch of NASA’s unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the moon is now scheduled for September 27, with a fallback date of October 2. The agency initially considered retrying the launch as early as the 23rd, but decided to do so later after “careful consideration of many logistical issues,” reports ... Read more

NASA announced that in the coming days it will not make a new attempt to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which as part of the Artemis 1 mission was supposed to deliver the Orion capsule to the Moon without a crew. Thus, the agency will miss possible launch ... Read more

Due to bad weather in the forecast on Friday, NASA decided to postpone the launch of the Artemis 1 rocket to Saturday, September 3. At a media briefing, the space agency said there was a 60 percent chance of Friday’s launch being postponed due to weather conditions. NASA will now ... Read more

Today (August 29) at 8:33 a.m. Eastern time (15:33 Kyiv time), NASA launches the Artemis 1 mission to the Moon. It will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the first attempt to return to the moon after more than 50 years of absence. The Orion capsule ... Read more

Today, NASA will return the Artemis 1 spacecraft to the launch site after its tests were postponed for minor repairs. The Space Launch System is now ready for a test to reproduce the countdown procedure at launch. NASA experts have already rolled the rocket out of the shipyard building at ... Read more