NASA Artemis II Astronauts Aim to Make Space Great for All

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the political currents of the moment.

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NASA Picks 10 New Astronauts as Focus Shifts to the Moon and Mars

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars.

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U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon, Critics Say, Pointing at SpaceX

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready for the mission, former NASA executives say.

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Astronaut James Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13, Dies at 97

He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”

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A Public School Enrollment Crisis, and a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

Plus, remembering “the Willy Wonka of cheese.”

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NASA’s Acting Administrator Calls for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A reactor would be useful for long-term stays on the moon.

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Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

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A Near-Full ‘Strawberry Moon’ Will Shine Again on Wednesday Night

June’s full moon, known as a “strawberry moon,” may appear reddish because of its low position on the Southern Horizon.

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Ispace of Japan’s Resilience Lander Heads to the Moon: How and When to Watch

Ispace crashed on the moon in 2023. Its second spacecraft, Resilience, aims in the hours ahead to succeed where its predecessor failed.

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China to Launch Tianwen-2 Mission to Capture Pieces of Near-Earth Asteroid

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

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