NASA, Artemis and moon
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NASA is set to send four astronauts to the moon and back as the launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission opens next Friday (6 February).
NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side of ...
When the Artemis mission lands on the Moon, its crew will have to grapple with a challenging environment and extreme isolation. What will it take to thrive in a lonely Moon base?
Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.
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