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The first crewed Artemis flight marks a key step toward long‑term return to the Moon and future missions to Mars. Artemis II builds on the success of the uncrewed Artemis I in 2022, and will demonstrate a broad range of capabilities needed on deep space missions. The Artemis II test flight will be NASA’s first mission with crew aboard the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft. Orion is developed to be capable of sending astronauts to the Moon and is a crucial step toward eventually sending crews on to Mars. The Orion spacecraft will serve as the exploration...

NASA is counting down to the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years. Launching on SLS and Orion, a crew of four will fly around the Moon as a precursor to humans returning to the surface. Artemis II Stakeout - NASA's Crewed Mission Around The Moon | Live NASASpaceflight | 1.44M subscribers | lots watching now | 4/1/2026

“Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flight test to get the final certification that our system is good to go.”—Jeremy VanderKam, deputy manager for Orion’s heat shield, speaking in 2022 On Wednesday, NASA will attempt to send four astronauts around the moon on a mission called Artemis II. This will be second flight of NASA’s SLS rocket, and the first time the 20-year-old Orion capsule flies with people on board. The trouble is that the heat shield on Orion...

Join us as the Artemis II crew answers questions from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, where they're in protective quarantine ahead of their upcoming flight around the Moon. NASA's Artemis II Q&A from Quarantine | 53:49 NASA | 12.8M subscribers | 20,828 views | March 29 2026(Streamed live 2 hours ago)

NewsNation) — The White House Instagram and X account has sparked questions after two mysterious videos were posted to the page on Wednesday night, with one of them later deleted. The first video, a four-second clip posted shortly after 9 p.m. EST, had the camera pointed towards a person’s feet with shoes on, with a female voice heard asking, “It’s launching soon, right?” Another voice could then be heard answering “yes,” according to Newsweek. Across the video, on-screen text could be seen that read “sound on.”

NASA is targeting a launch of Artemis II as early as April 1 to send four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the moon and back. The decision Thursday came after an in-depth flight readiness review, where managers met to discuss the mission. "All the teams polled 'go' to launch and fly Artemis II around the moon," said Lori Glaze, of NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. The crew — NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — were at the flight readiness review. NASA had planned to launch the...

In space news this week Stoke Space moves one step closer toward the inaugural launch of their Nova rocket, Rocket Lab releases their quarterly report and launches a hypersonic test vehicle, the Artemis II SLS is rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building and NASA announces major changes to the Artemis program. Rocket Lab Releases Update on First-of-Its-Kind Neutron Rocket - Avid Space Spaceflight Update | 4:40 Avid Space | 249K subscribers | 8,755 views | March 3, 2026

NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years. Engineers made a fix that aims to restore consistent helium flow to the upper stage of Artemis 2's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, agency officials announced in an update on Tuesday (March 3). "Work on the rocket and spacecraft will continue in the coming weeks as NASA prepares for rolling the rocket out to the launch pad again later this month ahead of a potential launch in April," NASA wrote in the...

Following the rollback of the Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft on Wednesday, Feb. 25, experts will discuss the work ahead for the Artemis II test flight around the Moon and provide broader updates on the Artemis campaign. Artemis Update (Feb. 27, 2026) | 1:01:31 NASA | 12.7M subscribers | 30,157 views | Streamed live 2 hours ago

[snip] I just had to pull my video that I made last night about the leaks being solved. No more hydrogen leaks with Artemis and the launch being no earlier than March 6th. I literally just woke up and the information is now completely changed and it's not good. Jared Isaacman shared on X that after overnight data showed an interruption in helium flow in the SLS interim cryogenic propulsion stage, teams are troubleshooting and preparing for a likely roll back of Artemis 2 to the vehicle assembly building at NASA Kennedy. This will almost assuredly impact the March launch...

NASA continues to press ahead through the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal countdown – a fueling test of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. Early this morning, at approximately 3 a.m. EST, teams powered up the rocket’s core stage, which will be loaded with more than 700,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen during the tanking phase of the countdown. This will occur over a series of different propellant loading milestones to fill, top off, and replenish the tanks. The interim cryogenic propulsion stage also was powered up overnight. Around 11 a.m., or L-33 hours, 30 minutes in the...

Blue Origin pauses New Shepard flights for no less than 2 years!? | 2:01 Ellie in Space | 216K subscribers | 15,046 views | January 30, 2026YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal Delayed, SpaceX to Merge with xAI!? | 4:42 Ellie in Space | 216K subscribers | 4,773 views | January 30, 2026

In an interview with News 5 Cleveland's Clay LePard, Isaacman talked about jobs at ‪@NASA‬ Glenn Research Facility in Cleveland, putting Americans back on the moon by 2028, plans for a base on the moon by 2030 and how humans will be on Mars within our lifetimes. Full interview with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacmanat the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland | 10:48News 5 Cleveland | 354K subscribers | 3,933 views | January 27, 2026

NASA has announced that America is now just days away from a historic return to the moon for the first time in two generations. The space agency revealed that the earliest Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon since 1972, will set off on this flight is February 6. NASA officials noted that the official launch window for Artemis II will remain open from January 31 to February 14, and several alternate dates for the launch have also been picked out. Artemis II can't launch on just any day. The timing will depend on precise orbital mechanics, such...

To return Americans to the Moon, SpaceX aligned Starship development along two paths: development of the core Starship system and supporting infrastructure, including production facilities, test facilities, and launch sites -- which SpaceX is self-funding representing over 90% of system costs -- and development of the HLS-specific Starship configuration, which leverages and modifies the core vehicle capability to support NASA's requirements for landing crew on and returning them from the Moon. SpaceX is working under a fixed-price contract with NASA, ensuring that the company is only paid after the successful completion of progress milestones, and American taxpayers are not on...

Indeed, even vocal supporters of America’s effort are now expressing doubts that Nasa will be able to beat the Chinese space agency in the race to send humans back to the lunar surface. China has been making great strides in its lunar effort and is targeting a Moon landing by 2030. America’s programme, on the other hand, is beset with problems, including the lack of a working lunar landing system and lunar surface spacesuits that are behind schedule.

Don’t know if we should be calling these woke folks, ‘astronauts’ or ‘cosmonauts’. But it was also expected that the people they picked for a hypothetical lunar mission would be leftists who hate America. Their experiments will likely consist of measuring equity on the moon and claiming that low-gravity environments have a disproportionate impact on people of color. And this garbage is starting early. Really early. NASA astronaut Victor Glover, recently named as the pilot of the Artemis II mission around the Moon, listens to Gil Scott-Heron’s poem “Whitey on the Moon” twice a week on the way to work....