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Artemis III is planned to launch in 2026 [16] aboard an SLS Block 1 rocket and will use the minimalist Gateway and expendable lander to achieve the first crewed lunar landing of the program. The flight is planned to touch down on the lunar south pole region, with two astronauts staying there for about one week.
A liquid hydrogen leak has interrupted Nasa’s preparations for its new Moon rocket launch. Controllers halted the fuelling operation for Artemis 1 on Monday morning, but Nasa said its engineers ...
The sound of the launch was a disappointment for some witnesses, being described as like an Atlas rocket launch, when observers stood 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away instead of three miles (5 km) for a Saturn launch. It was later determined that the cause of the difference between the Cape and the Redstone Arsenal was atmospheric conditions damping the ...
Ariane flight VA256 was an Ariane 5 rocket flight that launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into space on 25 December 2021. [3] It was 2021's final Ariane flight, its most valuable payload to date, and the 256th Ariane mission. The launch was described by NASA as "flawless" and "perfect". [4]
Artemis 1 took off at 6.47am (1.47am local time), with Nasa’s Space Launch System rocket, its most powerful ever, propelling the Orion spacecraft upwards from the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre ...
A rocket launch is scheduled overnight — NASA's PACE spacecraft. As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, SpaceX and NASA are targeting 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday to launch PACE atop a Falcon 9 rocket from ...
Ares I-X launch video Mission managers watch the launch. Ares I-X launched on October 28, 2009, at 11:30 EDT (15:30 UTC) from Kennedy Space Center LC-39B, successfully completing a brief test flight. The vehicle's first stage ignited at T−0 seconds and Ares I-X lifted off from Launch Complex 39B. [22]
It was also the debut launch for the Vulcan rocket, made by the private United Launch Alliance. ... Nasa Peregrine-1 launch: US rocket heads back to the Moon for first time in 50 years.