NASA, Artemis II
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To celebrate NASA’s planned launch of Artemis II – the first crewed test flight on the agency’s journey toward a long‑term lunar presence – Krispy Kreme® is debuting a limited‑edition Artemis II Doughnut, launching just in time for this historic moment in space exploration.
The first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis moon program may take off in a matter of days, with a launch window that opens on April 1, and as preparations are underway for that, the space agency is refocusing its plan to establish a human presence on the moon.
NASA's Artemis return-to-the-moon program is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Could a successful mission quiet its critics?
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NASA aims to launch the world's first planet-hopping spacecraft powered by nuclear fission
NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by the end of 2028. If successful, it would be the first probe to use nuclear propulsion to travel beyond Earth’s orbit.