Tag: Artemis
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NASA names crew for first human mission to the moon in more than 50 years
NASA astronauts Christina Koch (left), Victor Glover (top), Reid Wiseman (bottom), and Jeremy Hansen (right) pose for an Artemis 2 crew portrait in training versions of the Orion launch and enter pressure suits. Credit: NASA NASA announced Monday that former U.S. Navy fighter pilots Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, veteran space station astronaut Christina Koch,…
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NASA set to announce crew of Artemis 2 moon mission
A cadre of NASA astronauts walks toward the Space Launch System moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida before launch of the Artemis 1 test flight last year. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel NASA will unveil the four crew members Monday who will fly around the moon on the first piloted flight of the agency’s Orion…
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EGS Integration Console engineers review Artemis I campaign
The NASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is continuing to review the experiences from the Artemis I launch campaign as teams plan and prepare for Artemis II in a couple of years. History suggested there would be a long ground campaign to the Space Launch System’s (SLS) first liftoff, and a series of issues —…
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NASA´s William Hartwell updates on Artemis I and future ESMs
NASASpaceflight interviewed two speakers and subject matter experts about Orion, the European Service Module (ESM), Artemis I, and other space cooperations between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA as part of the Moon Media Day of ESA and Airbus. In the previously released interview, NASASpaceflight talked with the ESA Director of Human and Robotics…
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Crew operations training gears up for Starliner and Orion
Operations to support the upcoming first crew flights of Starliner and Orion are increasing around the Kennedy Space Center as both vehicles head toward that major milestone. Starliner operations have included United Launch Alliance (ULA), NASA, and Space Launch Delta 45 teams, as well as the crew for the vehicle’s upcoming Crew Flight Test (CFT),…
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NASA flight software for SLS navigates through clean first launch
The NASA-developed flight software for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle successfully flew the program’s first launch on the Artemis I mission on Nov. 16. The vehicle’s Integrated Avionics and Software conducted the final countdown and first eight minutes of launch, commanding the Core Stage, RS-25 engines, and Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) to orbital…
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From Artemis to Webb, take a look back — and a look ahead — at the year’s top trends in aerospace
An image of the galaxy NGC 7469 in the midst of star formation serves as this season’s “holiday card” from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA / L. Armus, A.S. Evans) A few years from now, we just might look back at 2022 as Year One for a new age…
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Artemis I review shows perfect ICPS performance, ULA looks to next Artemis launches
United Launch Alliance (ULA), the prime contractor for the Space Launch System’s (SLS’s) Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS), has declared the stage’s overall performance on the Artemis I mission as “perfect.” The ICPS is the in-space upper stage of the SLS stack. On Artemis I, it was responsible for raising the initial orbital perigee and…
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NASA talks Mobile Launcher refurbishment, modifications needed for Artemis II crew debut of SLS
Mobile Launcher 1 (ML1, or ML) is on its way back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center after successfully launching the SLS rocket and Orion/European Service Module duo on the Artemis I mission from Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) on Nov. 16, 2022. The ML now needs to be repaired from…
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft zooms around the moon and sets a course for splashdown
A crescent Earth looms above the lunar horizon in an image captured by NASA’s Orion spacecraft (seen in the left foreground). The reddish dot and the rays of light are camera artifacts. (NASA / ESA Photo) NASA’s Orion capsule fired its main engine for three and a half minutes today during a close approach to…