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All hands on deck: The international collaboration behind Artemis II's SLS rocket and Orion capsule

NASA aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and Mars through learnings of Artemis II.
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Meet NASA's Artemis closeout crew, tasked with securing astronauts in their spacecraft

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the process of getting inside and secured—in this case, in NASA's Orion ...

Skywatch: Entering a lunar launch window to go where no crew has gone before

NASA’s Artemis II mission to carry four people around the moon and back could launch as early as this Sunday, Feb. 8. Backup ...
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NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad

The Orion stack sits on top of a piece called "Spacecraft Adapter" (SA). Among other things, it encapsulates the [European] Service Module's ([E]SM's) various nozzles, and provides them with standoff ...