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Astronauts Practice Next Giant Leap for Artemis

By |2025-07-30T20:44:33-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Doug “Wheels” Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson were fully suited while conducting mission-like maneuvers in the full-scale build of the Starship human landing system’s airlock which will be located inside Starship under the crew cabin. Image Credit: SpaceX

Astronauts Practice Next Giant Leap for Artemis

By |2025-07-30T20:44:27-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Doug "Wheels" Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson were able to test the agility of the spacesuits by conducting movements and tasks similar to those necessary during lunar surface exploration on Artemis missions, such as operating the full-scale mockup of Starship’s elevator gate. Image Credit: SpaceX [...]

Astronauts Practice Next Giant Leap for Artemis

By |2025-07-30T20:44:26-04:00July 30th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

NASA astronaut Doug “Wheels” Wheelock and Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson prepare for a test of full-scale mockups of spacesuits developed by Axiom Space and SpaceX’s Starship human landing system developed for NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon. Image Credit: SpaceX

NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Resource Reel – December 2024

By |2025-01-14T19:09:22-05:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This resource reel shows major milestones for NASA’s mega Moon rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) from summer 2024 through late 2024. Teams across the country are manufacturing, building, and preparing hardware for SLS rockets that will power the first crewed Artemis missions with Artemis II and III and the first flights of SLS in [...]

NASA Barge Departs Michoud with Hardware for Three Different Artemis Missions

By |2024-09-19T20:08:59-04:00September 19th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Bound for Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA’s Pegasus barge departed the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Aug. 29 with multi-mission hardware for the Artemis campaign. Pegasus is ferrying hardware for three different crewed Artemis missions to the Space Coast. The SLS launch vehicle stage adapter for Artemis II was loaded onto [...]

Orion Crew Modules for Artemis II, Artemis III, and Artemis IV

By |2024-04-03T00:09:04-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s crewed Artemis II (right), Artemis III (left), and Artemis IV (center) missions are stationed next to each other inside the high bay of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2023. Each capsule is in a different stage of production [...]

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