Artemis II: The 4 astronauts NASA picked for moon mission | CNN
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Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing up the quartet to begin training for the historic Artemis II lunar flyby that is set to take off in November 2024.
Mars rocks await a ride to Earth — can NASA deliver?
NASA's Perseverance rover took a selfie on 22 January as it deposited one of a number of sample tubes (visible at the rover's base) on a flat area of Jezero Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
For decades, scientists who study Mars have watched in envy as spacecraft brought pieces of the Moon, chunks of asteroids and even samples of the solar wind to Earth to be studied.
NASA policy discourages naming missions after individuals - SpaceNews
The change comes after controversy about naming the James Webb Space Telescope, the agency's latest flagship astrophysics mission, after Webb, a NASA administrator during the 1960s.
NASA conducted a historical review and, in a final report released in November , concluded there was no evidence to substantiate those claims against Webb. That conclusion left some scientists dissatisfied, including several who led the effort to get the telescope renamed.
Here's what we've learned from NASA's DART asteroid-slamming mission | Space
The DART mission, NASA's first attempt to prove whether it is possible to shift an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth, has been described as a "great success" by scientists involved in the project.
"DART was a smashing success," Andy Rivkin, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), said as he and other DART researchers presented the results of the mission at the 8th Planetary Defense Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Monday (April 3).
Wiseman. Glover. Koch. Hansen. The names of #Artemis II crew: the first humans to fly to the Moon in over 50 years… https://t.co/AYAwyB8yD4 esa (from Europe) Mon Apr 03 15:51:36 +0000 2023
Nasa names astronauts for Artemis Moon mission https://t.co/VdrsPNENbc BBCWorld (from London, UK) Mon Apr 03 19:24:32 +0000 2023
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