Artemis II rocket mission to moon
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NASA has launched the Mars to Table Challenge, seeking Earth-independent food systems capable of sustaining astronauts on long-duration Moon and Mars missions.
NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to circle the Moon next month, testing technology and paving the way for future lunar landings and eventual missions to Mars.
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Artemis, NASA’s plan to return to the moon, build a permanent presence, and use it as the road to Mars
After Apollo 17 in December 1972, humans never went beyond Earth orbit again. Now NASA’s Artemis program aims to restart deep-space crewed exploration returning to the Moon, landing the first woman and first person of color,
NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target date for delivering a reactor to a launchpad was in the early 2030s. Nuclear space reactors were first developed in the U.S. in the 1950s.