Washington, April 11 (IANS) NASA’s Artemis II astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, completing a historic 10-day mission around the Moon and marking humanity’s return to deep space after more than 50 years.The Orion spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, made a parachute-assisted landing as recovery teams moved in to retrieve…
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Washington, April 2 (IANS) The United States has launched its first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years, with President Donald Trump and senior lawmakers hailing Artemis II as a milestone in a renewed global space race.“Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the successful launch of Artemis II; it was quite something,” Trump said at the top of his address to the nation on Iran on Wednesday night (local time), as he called the mission “a…
Florida, April 2 (IANS) NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission lifted off from the US state of Florida, carrying four astronauts on the first crewed flight around the Moon in more than 50 years. The Space Launch System rocket, with the Orion spacecraft on top, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Wednesday.It is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program. The four-member crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along …
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has completed final preparations for the launch of its ‘Artemis II’ mission — which is scheduled to lift off as early as April 1 from the Kennedy Space Center.According to NASA, the mission will mark the first crewed flight under its Artemis programme, sending four astronauts on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon.Artemis II will also be the first time humans travel beyond low-Earth orbit since th…
Florida, March 21 (IANS) NASA has returned its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft for its upcoming Artemis II crewed lunar mission to the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in the US state of Florida.The integrated SLS and Orion travelled about 4 miles (around 6.4 kilometres) from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the space centre, departing at 12:20 a.m. Eastern Time and arriving at the launch pad at 11:21 a.m., completing an 11-hour journey.NASA teams a…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) NASA has postponed the ambitious Artemis II mission to the Moon to March after detecting a hydrogen leak during a key fuelling test.The mission to launch a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida was initially targetted for February 6. It was later delayed to February 8 due to cold weather conditions with winds moving through Florida. “With the conclusion of the wet dress rehearsal today, we are moving off the February l…
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) After 50 years of the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, when man first landed on the Moon, NASA is planning to send a team of four astronauts on a journey around the Moon on February 6.The Artemis II crew includes NASA’s commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s (CSA) Jeremy Hansen.In preparation, the US space agency has moved the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to t…