NASA, Artemis
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In the 1960s, the United States won the space race decisively by planting the American flag firmly on the moon. Over the next five years, 12 NASA astronauts walked on the moon before the Apollo program,
After the safe return of four astronauts from a historic flyby of the moon last week, NASA is shifting focus to its next challenge:
The Trump administration released a memo detailing plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to advance U.S. space exploration and defense.
With the Artemis II crew members back home in Houston following their historic journey to the moon, NASA is already preparing for its next mission in the Artemis program, launching as soon as next year.
The White House is moving to fast-track nuclear power development in space, laying out a detailed road map with firm agency roles and time frames to put reactors on the moon and in orbit within the next decade.
Denzel Curry is thrilled that the crew of NASA’s Artemis II played his music in space.
A new White House initiative to develop space nuclear power directs NASA to develop a minimum 20-kW fission reactor and fly a variant to the lunar surface by 2030, with an eye on having high-power reactors ready to launch in the 2030s.
Experts say Trump's proposed budget for NASA is incredibly vague, "sloppy," and extremely likely to be shot down by Congress.