Artemis 3 Mission

Astronauts walking on the moon as part of NASA's first human mission to the lunar South Pole will be wearing Prada, as part of a new venture unveiled.

The mosaic reveals unprecedented detail of the lunar South Pole region and highlights a scenic crater called the Shackleton Crater.

The race to explore and develop the moon's resources has begun and Russia must remain a player despite the failure of its first lunar mission in 47 years, the head of Russia's space agency Roskosmos said on Monday.

India's upgraded 'Bahubali' rocket is standing tall on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota waiting to loft India's Chandrayaan-3 satellite towards the moon.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Monday said that the launch day for Chandrayaan-3 for a soft landing on the moon is July 13. "We will be able to do a soft landing on the moon. The launch day is July 13, it can go upto 19th," ISRO Chairman S Somnath said on the launch of Chandrayaan-3. He said that the launch date w...

A team led by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin won a coveted NASA contract to build a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the moon's surface, NASA's chief announced on Friday, capping a high-stakes contest. NASA's decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX...

On International Women's Day, Kathryn Lueders, the first woman head of NASA's human spaceflight programme, talks about the space agency's plan to put the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon by 2026.

NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its ...

NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is scheduled to launch on November 16, and the countdown for the maiden flight of the orange and white behemoth has begun at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without astronauts, represents the first step in the US space agency's plan to build a lasting presence on the Moon, and taking lesso...

Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA's towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier

NASA is building the rocket for its Artemis mission, which will land astronauts on the moon after half a decade – and for taking humans to Mars and beyond.

NASA has again delayed its planned launch of the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 by at least a month. The space agency had initially targeted the launch of the mission on February 12, 2022, but issues in the integrated testing programme have forced another schedule delay.

NASA said on Friday that it plans to launch the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 — the first step in US's plan to return humans to the Moon — in February 2022.

Astronauts walking on the moon as part of NASA's first human mission to the lunar South Pole will be wearing Prada, as part of a new venture unveiled.

The mosaic reveals unprecedented detail of the lunar South Pole region and highlights a scenic crater called the Shackleton Crater.

The race to explore and develop the moon's resources has begun and Russia must remain a player despite the failure of its first lunar mission in 47 years, the head of Russia's space agency Roskosmos said on Monday.

India's upgraded 'Bahubali' rocket is standing tall on the coast of the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota waiting to loft India's Chandrayaan-3 satellite towards the moon.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Monday said that the launch day for Chandrayaan-3 for a soft landing on the moon is July 13. "We will be able to do a soft landing on the moon. The launch day is July 13, it can go upto 19th," ISRO Chairman S Somnath said on the launch of Chandrayaan-3. He said that the launch date w...

A team led by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin won a coveted NASA contract to build a spacecraft that will send astronauts to and from the moon's surface, NASA's chief announced on Friday, capping a high-stakes contest. NASA's decision will give the agency a second ride to the moon under its Artemis program, after it awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX...

On International Women's Day, Kathryn Lueders, the first woman head of NASA's human spaceflight programme, talks about the space agency's plan to put the first woman and the first person of colour on the moon by 2026.

NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its ...

NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is scheduled to launch on November 16, and the countdown for the maiden flight of the orange and white behemoth has begun at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without astronauts, represents the first step in the US space agency's plan to build a lasting presence on the Moon, and taking lesso...

Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA's towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier

NASA is building the rocket for its Artemis mission, which will land astronauts on the moon after half a decade – and for taking humans to Mars and beyond.

NASA has again delayed its planned launch of the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 by at least a month. The space agency had initially targeted the launch of the mission on February 12, 2022, but issues in the integrated testing programme have forced another schedule delay.

NASA said on Friday that it plans to launch the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 — the first step in US's plan to return humans to the Moon — in February 2022.