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Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is About to Launch With Astronauts Aboard

"What they’re talking about doing is crazy." The post Experts Warn That There’s Something Wrong With the Moon Rocket NASA Is ...

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.
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Orion’s heat shield debate forces a new kind of moon-ride calculation

In deep-space travel, sometimes the most important “hardware” is a few inches of material that only matters for minutes. The Artemis II mission will orbit four astronauts around the Moon and return ...
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Orion will carry astronauts past the Moon despite a heat-shield question it can’t dodge

In a few quiet moments of training, the Artemis II crew has already practiced the final, wet moments of their mission climbing out of a capsule bobbing in open water, assisted by recovery teams who ...
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NASA selects 34 global volunteers to track Orion during Artemis II mission

NASA names 34 international volunteers to passively track Orion during Artemis II, supporting communications analysis alongside agency networks during the crewed mission around the Moon.

Artemis II rocket mission to the moon: What you need to know

The U.S. is the only country to have ever sent humans to the moon.
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SLS/Orion rolls to pad for Artemis 2

NASA’s SLS and Orion rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan. 17, though uncertainty remains about when the ...
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NASA Preps SLS, Orion For Crewed Flight Test Around The Moon

No one in NASA’s Artemis II crew had been born when astronauts last ventured into deep space for the final Apollo program ...
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Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.

WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its ...

NASA will fly Artemis II with the same Orion heat shield that cracked on its last mission

The Artemis II crew comprises NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. They will fly in a ...