Artemis II rocket mission to moon
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On January 20, NASA published a comprehensive report celebrating the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term. The agency highlighted a “Golden age” of
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 plans for Mars sample return are effectively cancelled as part of a bill approved by the U.S. Congress, ending efforts to collect Perseverance rover samples that could contain evidence of alien life.
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.
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.