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Giant NASA moon rocket heads to launch pad

NASA juggling piloted moon mission and space station crew replacement flight

With a space station medical evacuation safely completed, NASA is focused on two challenging missions proceeding in parallel: launching four astronauts on a flight around the moon, at the same time as...

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NASA's Artemis II moon rocket reaches launch pad, prepares for first crewed lunar mission in 50 years

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NASA inches closer to moon rocket launch

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Watch: Timelapse shows Nasa rocket's 12-hour journey to launch pad

The gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket and Orion Space Capsule was moved from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to a launch pad around four miles (6.4km) away.

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NASA inches closer to lunar return

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NASA's Artemis II mission clears big hurdle, rolling out to launchpad

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4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?

The 10-day mission, called Artemis II, will lift off as soon as February 6, taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch as well as the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen t...

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NASA to roll out 11 million-pound moon rocket in preparation for astronauts' launch

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Artemis II: Nasa's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad

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Artemis II, NASA’s manned moon-bound spacecraft, set to begin journey to launch pad

The journey in Florida will be only 4 miles, but it’s expected to last between 8-10 hours, NASA officials said Friday.

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Museum Move Reunites Historic Gemini 6 Spacecraft with its Pilot

A historic NASA spacecraft has landed on long-term display at the museum named for its pilot. The Gemini 6 capsule, which in 1965 achieved the first rendezvous with another crewed spacecraft, quietly made the move last week to the Stafford Air & Space ...

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A Meeting in Space: Gemini 6 and 7

On Dec. 15, 1965 — 60 years ago Monday — two crews of NASA astronauts met for the first time in Earth orbit. Trouble was: That hadn’t been the original plan. NASA had turned yet another disappointing failure into an historic success. The original ...

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How the often-overlooked Gemini missions won the space race

While most attention surrounding Houston's role in getting Americans to the moon in the 1960s tends to center on the Apollo program, the one that preceded it tends to get short shrift. The Gemini program sent sixteen astronauts to space on ten missions ...

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The Forgotten Story of NASA's Most Life-Threatening Spacewalk

One of the greatest achievements in human space flight is also one that history overlooks. After the Mercury program—when the U.S. first launched astronauts into space—and before the Apollo program, when we went to the moon, there was the Gemini ...

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National Treasure: When Gemini VI Got Into the Christmas Spirit

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During the 1965 Gemini VI space mission, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford pulled off one of NASA’s most memorable pranks. After radioing Mission Control about a mysterious unidentified ...