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NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.
By Josh Dinner published
A big restructuring of NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.

'War of the Worlds' in reverse? Mars dirt could help fight off a microbial invasion from Earth
By Keith Cooper published
Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological activity.

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity's return to the moon?
By Josh Dinner published
In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.

NASA repairs Artemis 2 moon rocket in hopes of an April lunar launch
By Mike Wall published
NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.

Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?
By Jeff Spry published
NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission
By Mike Wall published
NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon — and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

Nostrovia! We finally got our 1st look at Apple TV's 'Star City,' the Soviet 'For All Mankind' spinoff
By Jeff Spry published
See how the space race evolved from the other side in this new sci-fi series coming in May

NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'
By Josh Dinner published
NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.

Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn't launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests
By Keith Cooper published
A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.

NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report
By Mike Wall published
NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report criticizing how the agency handled the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi.
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