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NASA’s Artemis II team — four astronauts preparing to fly around the moon — combines seasoned spacefarers and a Canadian first, bringing a mix of combat aviation, long-duration station experience, engineering expertise...
NASA is ready for Wednesday’s Artemis II liftoff, but the weather will play a key role in whether the mission goes as planned. CBS News meteorologist Andrew Kozak highlights the main factors being monitored at Kennedy...
The four-person Artemis II crew is in quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center as NASA prepares for a Wednesday launch that would send humans farther from Earth than ever before. If all goes according to plan, the mission...
March 29, 2026 — On the eve of a scheduled lunar flight, the Artemis II crew said they are ready as teams at Kennedy Space Center prepare the rocket for a possible Wednesday liftoff. Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor...
The four-person Artemis II crew is at Kennedy Space Center preparing for a lunar round trip as early as next week. The nine-day test flight will cover nearly half a million miles, loop behind the moon and return to...
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center the 322-foot rocket for Artemis II sits on the pad, targeted for liftoff Wednesday, April 1. If it launches as planned, this will be the first crewed trip toward the moon since Apollo 17...
Updated March 27, 2026 — The Artemis II crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Friday to begin final preparations for a planned April 1 launch that would send them on a roughly 700,000-mile trip around the moon and...
NASA has unveiled a revised Artemis strategy that commits roughly $20 billion over the next seven years to build a semi‑permanent base near the lunar south pole. The plan, announced days before the planned launch of...
NASA’s Artemis II stack has been rolled back to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center after repairs and final work inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. The 32‑story Space Launch System rocket and the Orion crew...
Updated March 21, 2026 — A probable meteorite tore through the roof and two stories of a house in the Ponderosa Forest neighborhood north of Houston on Saturday evening, officials said.
Updated March 20, 2026 — Early Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the repaired Artemis II moon rocket began a slow, roughly 12-hour roll back to the launch pad, setting up a delayed April 1 attempt to send four...
An object weighing roughly 7 tons streaked across the morning sky before 9 a.m. ET, creating a bright fireball and a powerful sonic boom that some residents mistook for an explosion. NASA and weather officials say the...
