NASA scientists will also test their countdown procedures. Artemis II is scheduled to carry the first woman and person of color to the lunar surface. It is scheduled to lift off in April.

Teams with NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD) rehearse recovery procedures for a launch pad abort scenario off the ...

American space agency NASA shared details of the training it performs to recover the astronauts of the Artemis II miision in ...

NASA,DoD rehearse Artemis II emergency abort and astronaut recovery drill Pad and ascent abort scenarios simulated off ...

The Science Evaluation Room (SER) is where ground teams will support the Artemis II lunar science and planetary observations.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson ... about understanding the safety risks facing the Artemis II astronauts. “We’ve conducted expansive testing including analyzing samples from the heat shield, ...

The Artemis II mission, which was targeting liftoff for late 2025, will now launch no earlier than April, 2026. The mission will send NASA's Reid ... the moon and back, testing key systems of ...

Artemis II is set to be the program's first crewed ... of charred material during reentry of the Artemis I uncrewed test flight," NASA said in a statement. The heat shield, which is designed ...

NASA replicated the charring and cracking after engineers devised a test procedure to expose Avcoat heat shield material to the actual conditions of the Artemis I reentry. So, for Artemis II, NASA ...

NASA projects an image of the Artemis II Mission "Patch" onto the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida in April. The Artemis II mission is planned to be the first to send ...