NASA has launched four astronauts on Artemis II, the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon in more than 50 years.
Riding aboard the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, the crew is on a 10-day test flight to prove critical systems, perform manual operations, and travel farther than any humans have in decades.
NASA artemis II launch begins historic crewed moon mission.
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Four people are on their way to the Moon — for the first time since Apollo astronauts stepped off the lunar surface more than 50 years ago. They launched successfully this evening from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on NASA’s Artemis II mission, and, if everything goes to plan, they will travel farther from Earth than any human has before.
“Humanity’s next great voyage begins,” said NASA launch commentator Derrol Nail as the rocket cleared the launch tower.
The astronauts will now orbit Earth for about 24 hours to perform checks on their spacecraft, and then fire their rocket engines to set them on course for the Moon. The voyage there will take three days, the lunar surface growing ever larger in the capsule’s windows as they approach. On arrival, they will slingshot around the Moon’s far side, glimpsing lunar regions no human has ever seen by eye, and then make the three-day journey back home (see ‘Artemis II trajectory’).
Watch live here!! Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed Moon mission in over 50 years, will launch astronauts around the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft using the powerful SLS rocket. This historic NASA lunar mission will test deep-space life-support systems, high-speed Earth reentry, and the next phase of the Artemis program leading to the Artemis III Moon landing.
The Artemis 2 crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—will travel farther from Earth than any humans in decades, performing a lunar flyby, systems checkout, and deep-space trajectory critical for future Moon to Mars exploration. This mission is a major milestone for NASA Artemis, lunar exploration, Moon mission timeline, and the return of humans to the lunar surface. Space fans are watching for updates on Artemis II launch date, SLS rocket tests, Orion spacecraft performance, and NASA livestream coverage. Artemis II is the flagship NASA Artemis mission that will send the Artemis 2 crew of four Artemis II astronauts on a historic crewed lunar mission aboard the Orion spacecraft, launched by NASA’s powerful SLS rocket. This mission includes a precise lunar flyby and marks a major milestone in the Artemis program, advancing NASA’s long-term Moon to Mars strategy. As part of the modern NASA Moon mission campaign, Artemis II will test deep-space systems critical for future lunar exploration, including the planned Artemis 3 Moon landing. Space fans tracking the Moon mission timeline are watching closely for the official Artemis 2 launch date, major NASA spaceflight updates, and the upcoming NASA livestream. Expect major space news 2025 announcements as NASA releases each Moon mission update and continues preparing for humanity’s return—returning to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Artemis Launch Live: Everything You Need to Know About NASA’s Return to the Moon.
The Artemis launch live event marks one of the most anticipated moments in modern spaceflight, as NASA prepares for a historic rocket launch today live from Kennedy Space Center Florida. This mission to the moon 2026 is part of the broader Artemis program, designed to return humans to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17, the last moon mission in 1972.
The Artemis 2 mission is NASA’s first crewed flight in the Artemis program, following the success of Artemis 1 launch. Unlike earlier missions, Artemis II will not land on the moon, but instead will send astronauts aboard the Orion capsule on a deep-space journey around the Moon.
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The Artemis II flight path will take the spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth.
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“These spaceflights will be slotted in our manifest immediately after we fly the current members of our founding astronaut community, many of whom have been anticipating their spaceflight for several years,” he said.
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With the movie project hail mary just out a few days back, we are here to discuss the alien species and the spaceships that appeared in the movie. If you have seen the trailer, you would know what Rocky is, but here we will discuss in detail about his species and two others that are key to the story.
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(Science fiction’s “warp drive” is speeding closer to reality.)
Inspired by science fiction, they landed on “quantum teleportation.” Since then, the idea has gone from theoretical concept to an experimentally verified reality. The first experiments in the late 1990s showed that quantum states could be transmitted across short distances, while subsequent research proved it works across increasingly longer distances—even to and from low Earth orbit, as Chinese scientists demonstrated in 2017. They’ve achieved quantum teleportation by taking advantage of quantum entanglement, a natural phenomenon in which tiny particles can become linked with each other across infinite distances.
Quantum teleportation is very different from the teleportation of matter we see in fiction. It involves transferring a quantum state without moving any matter. And while experts say it won’t lead to Star Trek-esque beaming, it could help bring about a new era of computing that revolutionizes our understanding of the subatomic world—and by extension, of the nature of the universe and everything within it.
As the U.S. plans to return to the moon with the upcoming Artemis II mission, a question endures: What will future lunar explorers eat? According to new research from The University of Texas at Austin, the answer might be chickpeas.
Scientists have successfully grown and harvested chickpeas using simulated “moon dirt,” the first instance of this crop produced in this medium. The research, which was conducted in collaboration with Texas A&M University, is described in a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Sara Santos, the principal investigator of the project, said that the work is a giant leap in understanding what it will take to grow food on the lunar surface.
Healable spacecraft structures could soon be possible thanks to cutting-edge composite technology. Swiss companies CompPair and CSEM with Belgian company Com&Sens have partnered with the European Space Agency (ESA) to modify their self-healing carbon fiber product for use in space transportation.
Project Cassandra (a loose abbreviation of Composite Autonomous SenSing AnD RepAir) includes sensors and a heating element into a composite carbon-fiber material, allowing spacecraft to autonomously repair initial stages of damage.
Cassandra is part of ESA’s Future Innovation Research in Space Transportation (FIRST!) Initiative which is finding and testing innovative technology that will benefit European space transportation.
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Everything burns. Given the right environment, all matter can burn by adding oxygen, but finding the right mix and generating enough heat makes some materials combust more easily than others. Researchers interested in knowing more about a type of fire called discrete burning used ESA’s microgravity experiment facilities to investigate.
In a series of parabolic flights and on sounding rockets launched from Sweden, a team from Professor Jeffrey Bergthorson at McGill University in Canada and Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands investigated burning iron powder in zero gravity. Their research was pure physics, the scientists wanted to know more about discrete burning whereby flames do not burn through fuel continuously but jump from one fuel source to another. This form of fire hardly occurs naturally on Earth, but an example is a forest fire where one tree burns completely and the fire jumps to the next tree when the temperature increases enough for combustion.
Burning iron dust in experiments on zero-g aircraft and rocket flights allowed for the iron particles to float and ignite discreetly. High-speed cameras captured the spectacle and allowed the researchers to better understand the phenomenon, resulting in computer models that showed the ideal conditions to burn the fuel on Earth.