Russian cosmonauts complete station spacewalk to ready radiator for move

Two components of the Russian side of the International Space Station are a step closer to being robotically relocated after two cosmonauts completed a spacewalk to prepare the pieces for their move. Expedition 68 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, conducted a six hour, 25 minute EVA (extravehicular activity) on Thursday (Nov. 17) to ready an airlock and radiator for their transfer from one Russian module to another. The hardware had been launched to the station 12 years ago aboard…

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NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission will carry science across the solar system

NASA’s new moon mission will bring science to multiple solar system destinations, a senior agency official said Wednesday (Nov. 16). Hours after the launch of Artemis 1 kicked off the larger Artemis program effort to return humans to the moon, a NASA official said that the uncrewed mission, which lifted off at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT), is a keystone in building future missions with humans on board. “Artemis 1 is the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to explore the moon in preparation for missions to Mars,”…

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President Biden, VP Harris hail NASA Artemis 1 moon rocket launch and its ‘limitless possibilities’

The White House cheered the successful launch of NASA’s first Artemis moon mission on Wednesday (Nov. 16). Artemis 1 kicked off the lunar exploration program with a dramatic uncrewed night launch at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT), during which the Space Launch System megarocket successfully boosting the Orion spacecraft on a journey to the moon. President Joe Biden had watched the launch and called NASA directly to congratulate the agency, according to a tweet (opens in new tab) from Administrator Bill Nelson. Biden also commented on Twitter (opens in new…

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Spot NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion on its way to the moon in a free livestream tonight (Nov. 16)

NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft is headed to the moon on a first-of-its-kind test flight and you may be able to see a telescope’s view of the spacecraft online tonight (Nov. 16).  The Orion spacecraft launched toward the moon today at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, riding the agency’s first Space Launch System megarocket into orbit. A few hours later, the rocket’s upper stage fired its engine to send the Artemis 1 Orion capsule on its trip around the moon. That’s where tonight’s…

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