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NASA Welcomes Senegal as Artemis Accords Signatory

By |2025-07-28T13:44:22-04:00July 28th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Senegal signed the Artemis Accords July 24, 2025, during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. In 2020, during the first Trump Administration, the United States, led by NASA and the State Department, joined with seven other founding nations to establish the Artemis Accords, responding to the growing interest in lunar [...]

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 2025: To the Moon, Mars, and Beyond

By |2024-12-27T19:09:20-05:00December 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Preparing to orbit and do science on the Moon, investigating how solar wind interacts with Mars, and demonstrating quiet supersonic flight are just a FEW of the milestones we have planned for 2025. To learn more about the missions mentioned in this highlight video, take a deep dive into these links: [0:09] Artemis II Mission: [...]

NASA and Czech Republic Sign Artemis Accords Agreements

By |2024-04-03T12:09:03-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On May 3, 2023, NASA senior leaders and Department of State officials for the Czech Republic signed Artemis Accords agreements for participation in the agency’s Artemis program. While NASA is leading the Artemis program, international partnerships will play a key role in achieving a sustainable and robust presence on the Moon while preparing to conduct [...]

Highlights From the First 13 Days of NASA’s Artemis I Moon Mission

By |2024-04-03T12:08:54-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

On Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Artemis I reached the halfway point of its 26-day mission around the Moon, flying roughly 270,000 miles (434,000 km) from the Earth—farther from our home planet than any spacecraft designed to send humans to space and back has gone before. From Artemis I's launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to [...]

Artemis: Onward to the Moon

By |2024-04-03T00:09:02-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

With Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. We will collaborate with commercial and international partners and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon. Then, we will use what we learn on [...]

Rockets 101: How to get to Mars! 🚀 #Shorts

By |2021-02-24T11:32:55-05:00February 24th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In February 2021, NASA lander the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover on the surface of the red planet, but have you thought about how it got there? Here's a YouTube #Shorts synopsis on how NASA was able to land another rover on Mars! Go Perseverance!!Originally posted on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@olhzn**************************************************************************************Connect with me here ➡ https://solo.to/olhznMEMBERS GET BONUS [...]

NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing! 🔴 Live

By |2021-02-18T17:07:36-05:00February 18th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA's Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter drone. It was launched on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and plans to touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.Perseverance will investigate an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars [...]

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Launch 🔴 Live

By |2020-07-30T09:52:51-04:00July 30th, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

NASA's Perseverance Mars 2020 Rover will begin its nearly seven-month journey to the red planet when it lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket. Liftoff is currently scheduled during a two-hour window that opens at 11:50 UTC (7:50 AM EDT) on Thursday, 30 July.A United [...]

How do you pronounce Uranus and should we explore it?

By |2020-06-27T09:03:27-04:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

What's the correct pronunciation here? Momentum is building among planetary scientists to send a major mission to Uranus or Neptune — the most distant and least explored planets in the Solar System. Huge gaps remain in scientists’ knowledge of the blueish planets, known as the ice giants, which have been visited only once by a [...]

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