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Artemis program
- Vehicle Assembly BuildingOn the 2nd of August 1963, construction crews drove the first steel foundation pile into the Florida bedrock. This single action marked the beginning of a…
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 sits on Merritt Island in Florida, and it has witnessed more of humanity's most ambitious departures from Earth than…
- Space Launch SystemThe Space Launch System emerged from a specific legal requirement in 2010. Congress passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, Public Law 111, 267, which…
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control CenterThe Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, is the room where human spaceflight history was made.
- Artemis IIIArtemis III aims to land two astronauts at the Moon's south polar region for approximately one week. This mission marks the first crewed lunar landing since…
- Artemis programOn the 11th of December 2017, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-1. This executive order officially re-established the national space…
- Commercial Lunar Payload ServicesIn April of 2018, NASA officials made a decision that would reshape lunar exploration. They cancelled the Resource Prospector rover concept study and…
- Lunar GatewayThe Lunar Gateway began as a concept called the Deep Space Habitat in 2012. NASA released this proposal to study requirements for deep space habitats under…
- Orion (spacecraft)The idea for a Crew Exploration Vehicle arrived on the 14th of January 2004. It emerged as part of the Vision for Space Exploration following the Space…
- Artemis IIIn April 2017, NASA canceled the Asteroid Redirect Mission. This decision forced a complete rewrite of Exploration Mission-2 plans.