SpaceX launch date of Crew-12 astronauts to the International Space Station will depend on the outcome of the Artemis 2 wet dress rehearsal and launch attempts.

The buzz is building for NASA’s Artemis II mission that will send four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon. The highly anticipated endeavor will be the first crewed moon-bound flight since the final Apollo mission way back in 1972.

The Artemis 2 astronauts who will become the first humans in more than 40 years to fly on a lunar mission are in quarantine. Here's what that means.

NASA is set to send four astronauts to the moon and back as the launch window for the upcoming Artemis II mission opens next Friday (6 February).

Four astronauts have entered quarantine ahead of the first mission around the Moon in more than 50 years. The Artemis II mission is scheduled to lift off at some point next month, with Nasa rolling out the rocket earlier this month ahead of the launch window opening in early February.

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If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific would have ventured more than 40 metres from the beach. That is about to change.

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission went into quarantine on Jan. 23, keeping everything on track for a possible launch in early February.

In a statement Friday, the Kent, Wash.-based company said the move as aligning with U.S.

Frigid temperatures have delayed NASA's preparations for its wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis II launch, the space agency announced Friday.