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Japanese moon lander touches down, but crippled by mission-ending power glitch

A robotic Japanese moon lander touched down on the lunar surface Friday, but it immediately suffered a power glitch of some sort that prevented...

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NASA names crew for first human mission to the moon in more than 50 years

NASA announced Monday that former U.S. Navy fighter pilots Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, veteran space station astronaut Christina Koch, and rookie Canadian astronaut...

NASA set to announce crew of Artemis 2 moon mission

NASA will unveil the four crew members Monday who will fly around the moon on the first piloted flight of the agency’s Orion deep...

NASA’s InSight lander bows out after ground-shaking Mars mission

Dust-laden solar panels and darker Martian skies have finally sealed the fate...

Orion enters lunar distant retrograde orbit

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Orion spacecraft entered a high-altitude orbit around the moon Nov. 25 in the latest major step in the Artemis 1 uncrewed...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft completes powered flyby of the moon

NASA’s unpiloted Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for two-and-a-half minutes Monday...

Work begins on ground station in South Africa to support NASA’s lunar programme

Officials gathered on 8 November to break ground on a new facility in South Africa...

CAPSTONE: The Story So Far

After decades of delays and false starts, NASA is finally returning to the Moon. The world is eagerly awaiting the launch of Artemis I,...

How Does the James Webb Telescope Phone Home?

When it comes to an engineering marvel like the James Webb Space Telescope, the technology involved is so specialized that there’s precious little the...

Psyche asteroid explorer arrives at Kennedy Space Center for launch preps

A U.S. military cargo plane delivered NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from California to the Kennedy Space Center last week, starting a three-month campaign to ready the asteroid explorer for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in August.

Microsoft helps JPL with Deep Space Network scheduling

Microsoft is working with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to speed up the  process for scheduling communications with distant spacecraft through NASA's Deep Space Network. 

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