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Countdown to liftoff: How Artemis II builds on Apollo and prepares for the future

Artemis II will carry four astronauts around the Moon, testing Orion and paving the way for the Artemis III lunar landings. UCF’s Florida Space Institute is playing a critical role in understanding ...
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The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
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Countdown for historic space mission begins

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II mission stands on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at ...
Astronomy

Artemis 2’s long countdown

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: “Why has it taken so long to return to the Moon?” After all, NASA had the ...
PBS

Apollo's old-timers root for NASA's return to the moon with Artemis II launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back. They just wish these Artemis moonshots had ...