NASA delays Artemis II launch
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What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. NASA’s best communications relay remains the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has now been there for 20 years.
NASA will launch two crewed missions in early February, sending astronauts to the ISS to prepare for Mars missions and another crew to orbit the moon.
From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to continue in 2026.
A Mars spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, has been AWOL. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN orbiter.
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mission NG-2 successfully launched a second mission from Cape Canaveral Thursday, carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. The huge 321-foot (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the sky and is expected to reach the Red ...