Commercial moon lander enters lunar orbit ahead of Thursday landing try
Now in lunar orbit, Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander will attempt a touchdown near the moon's south pole Thursday.
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Now in lunar orbit, Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander will attempt a touchdown near the moon's south pole Thursday.
One of the ships now docked in San Francisco for Fleet Week has been involved in some missions that you could call out of this world.
Three NASA veterans, including one of the world's most experienced female spacewalkers, and a Canadian rookie astronaut will fly around the moon next year.
The successful return to Earth marks a major milestone in NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface of the moon.
Mission controllers with the Artemis program just wrapped up a critical maneuver to put the Orion space capsule into a record-breaking lunar orbit. It will now eclipse Apollo 13 to become the most distant human-capable craft ever launched from Earth.
After a spectacular lunar flyby, the Orion capsule is headed toward a distant orbit around the moon.
NASA's new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight early Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years.
If all goes well, the SLS rocket will send an unpiloted Orion capsule on a nearly monthlong journey to circle the moon and return to Earth.
Trouble cooling one of the giant rocket's engines and a balky valve needed for troubleshooting triggered a launch scrub.
Years late and billions over budget, the SLS rocket is finally ready for blastoff Monday on an unpiloted test flight to lunar orbit.
