Artemis, NASA and Earth
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NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are ...
The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.
The letter A obviously stands for the name of the project, Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals, virginity, and who was associated with the moon, much like Diana in Roman mythology. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister to Apollo.
The photos, taken decades apart in 1968 and 2026, show Earth as it would be seen if you were standing on the moon. Take a look.
They were the pioneers of space exploration - the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. Not since the end of 1972 has a human set foot on the lunar surface. But with the success of Artemis II, the race ...
Sam Dove is one of the people in charge of getting NASA’s Artemis rocket to the launch pad running the workhorse crawler-transporter 2 at Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA charts path to future missions with promising Artemis II evaluations
NASA’s Artemis II mission, which successfully splashed down in April, marks a pivotal milestone in the agency’s journey to returning humans to the Moon and beyond. Initial assessments from this mission,