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Mar 31

WATCH: Artemis II astronauts announced by NASA, Canadian Space Agency

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

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Feb 01

How Octavia Butler remembered the fallen Columbia astronauts on the NewsHour

By Bella Isaacs-Thomas

Acclaimed science fiction author Octavia Butler offered insight into the place that space and its explorers occupy in our collective imagination in a discussion with former Newshour anchor Jim Lehrer, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and other guests.

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Dec 11

Watch 6:16
What next for space exploration after NASA’s Artemis 1 mission?

NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Sunday afternoon just off California's Baja Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The 26-day Artemis 1 test mission marked a significant step toward returning astronauts to the moon. Miles O'Brien joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the…

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Dec 09

Watch 6:53
Space historian examines parallels of NASA’s last moon landing and the Artemis mission

By Miles O'Brien

The nearly month-long Artemis 1 mission to the Moon is slated to end on Sunday with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. On that very day 50 years ago, Dec. 11, 1972, the last Apollo astronauts set foot on the…

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Sep 09

NASA to potentially reattempt Artemis 1 launch in late September

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA is replacing leaky seals in its moon rocket at the pad in hopes of launching it on its first test flight by the end of this month.

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Sep 03

Fuel leak disrupts NASA’s 2nd attempt at Artemis launch

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before astronauts climb aboard.

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Sep 02

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Years late and billions over budget, NASA’s most powerful rocket finally set for takeoff

By Miles O'Brien

If all goes as planned, NASA will launch a rocket to return to the moon Saturday afternoon. This first phase will send an unmanned capsule to lunar orbit and back, but NASA wants humans to land on the moon in…

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Aug 29

NASA’s Artemis 1 launch postponed following engine problem

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket was set to lift off Monday morning from Florida with three test dummies aboard on its first flight, a mission to propel a capsule into orbit around the moon.

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Aug 26

How NASA’s Artemis 1 launch will mark a new era in space exploration

By Bella Isaacs-Thomas

The uncrewed test flight will send a novel spacecraft on a weekslong journey around the moon and back to Earth.

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May 13

Watch 4:45
Image of Milky Way’s black hole marks new era in space science

For decades scientists have believed there is a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. For the first time this week, they released an astonishing image of it, about 27,000 light years away from Earth. An international…

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