KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – A beautiful and extremely loud and bright late afternoon April 1 blastoff on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion Moon rocket propelled the Artemis II astronaut quartet on NASA’s history making journey hurling the first humans to the Moon and back in more than 50 years – since NASA’s Apollo era. The successful Artemis
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached the farthest distance from Earth it will travel during the groundbreaking Artemis 1 mission — while also reaching the halfway mark of the flight during Flight Day 13, on Monday, Nov. 28 of the 25.5 day long test flight. The spacecraft also captured stunning imagery of Earth and the
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – Apollo 13, NASA’ 3rd planned manned lunar landing mission launched 50 years ago on Apollo 11, 1970 suffered a catastrophic explosion enroute to the Moon and has since become known as “a successful failure” because the three man crew of NASA astronauts was able to safely return in spite of the explosion