NASA is targeting no earlier than March 6, 2026, for the historic launch of Artemis II, marking a major milestone in the agency’s return to deep space exploration.

Natasha Wiest, Boeing's SLS core stage program manager, delivered a NASA Artemis II-themed speech to a space-industry audience in Cape Canaveral.

NASA should focus on the body and mind, not just engineering, for cosmic travel. Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” Astronauts are heading back to the moon — the first time anyone has approached it since 1972.

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The Artemis 2 astronauts will venture deeper into space than any human has gone before. That presents some seriously exciting research opportunities.

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For the first time in more than half a century, NASA is preparing to send astronauts back into deep space, not just to low Earth orbit but around the Moon itself. Artemis II, the second flight in the Artemis program, will carry four people on a roughly 10 ...