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Astronauts Are Heading to the Moon for the First Time in Over 50 Years, but They Won’t Be Landing
A group of four NASA astronauts are set to blast off on a historic mission, dubbed Artemis II, as soon as February 6
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen could launch on a trip around the moon as early as Feb. 8, traveling farther from Earth than humanity has ever gone before.
New footage shows one of NASA's WB-57 research jets spewing out flames and smoke as it skids across a runway during an emergency landing near Houston. The veteran aircraft was due to play a small role in the Artemis II mission.
I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before returning that sample back to Earth for analysis.