Return to the On to Mars.
NASA's Artemis program will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon — for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Mission Control
Full TimelineArtemis I
Uncrewed test · Nov 2022
SLS & Orion validated over 25.5-day mission. 1.4 million miles flown.
Artemis II
Crewed lunar flyby · Apr 2026
4 crew. 10-day free-return trajectory around Moon. Splashdown Apr 10, 2026.
Artemis III
Moon landing · 2027+
First crewed landing since Apollo 17. South Pole via Starship HLS.
Gateway
Lunar station · 2027+
International lunar-orbit outpost. ESA, JAXA, CSA collaboration.
Artemis II Crew
Full profiles
Reid Wiseman
Commanded humanity's first crewed lunar mission since 1972. Navy test pilot and veteran ISS commander.
Victor Glover
First Black astronaut to fly to the Moon's vicinity. Former ISS crew member and U.S. Navy pilot.
Christina Koch
First woman to fly to the Moon's vicinity. Holds the record for longest spaceflight by a woman — 328 days.
Jeremy Hansen
First Canadian to travel to the Moon's vicinity. Royal Canadian Air Force colonel and CSA astronaut.
Artemis News
All ArtemisLiftoff: The Day the Orbital Economy Became a Public Market
Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. The sector's defining company is trading on the open market for the first time. A frontier that was ...
Did Astronaut Jim Lovell Really Say "Houston, We Have a Problem?" Decoding the Real History
Did Jim Lovell really say “Houston, we have a problem”? Not exactly. Here’s the real Apollo 13 story behind the famous misquote.
Just 12.5 light years away, around a star so faint it was only discovered in 2003, sits one of the most Earth-sized rocky worlds ever found in a habitable zone — and yet we still cannot answer the single question that decides everything: whether it has an
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Japan's H3 rocket bounces back from failure with successful return to flight launch carrying 6 satellites
Japan successfully completed its first mission with its H3 rocket since a launch failure last year resulted in the loss of a payload.
Avanti trims GEO exposure with Hylas-3 sale
TAMPA, Fla. — Avanti Communications is moving to close a chapter on the debt-fueled geostationary expansion that once defined the British satellite op...
Meet LEV-2, a baseball-sized and absurdly cute moon robot
This tiny robot might look like a high-tech hamster ball, but it could hasten lunar exploration
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3rd Confirmed Interstellar Object • Discovered Jul 2025
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View allBreathable oxygen has now been produced on the surface of Mars — generated between 2021 and 2023 by a NASA experiment about the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover — in the first time humans have ever made air on another planet, openin
Sometime around midday on April 20, 2021, a microwave-sized device on Mars finished its first hour of work and reported back to its operators at the M...
Elon Musk was having worst year of his life - divorce, failed rockets, broke and close to nervous breakdown. How 3 days around Christmas saved him, SpaceX and Tesla
In 2008, Elon Musk faced near financial ruin with SpaceX and Tesla on the brink of collapse. After a critical SpaceX launch succeeded, NASA awarded th...
SpaceX IPO valuation depends on Starship and orbital AI data centers
Reusable rockets and Starlink made Elon Musk’s company dominant in spaceflight. Its record valuation leans on making Starship flights routine and orbi...
Liftoff: The Day the Orbital Economy Became a Public Market
Issued on behalf of Starfighters Space, Inc. The sector's defining company is trading on the open market for the first time. A frontier that was ...
Did Astronaut Jim Lovell Really Say "Houston, We Have a Problem?" Decoding the Real History
Did Jim Lovell really say “Houston, we have a problem”? Not exactly. Here’s the real Apollo 13 story behind the famous misquote.
SpaceX Shares Indicated More Than 35% Higher on Gray Markets
(Bloomberg) -- Pre-IPO trading in derivatives linked to SpaceX indicates a gain of anything between 30% and 50% for Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite and ...
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