NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Dr. Marvel was, until recently, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Artemis II’s journey ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

How will NASA get the Artemis II crew safely back on Earth? Here's the science behind splashdown

While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft will hurdle through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound and ...

How the Artemis II crew trained to observe and photograph the moon: A NASA science team geologist explains

The Artemis II crew has now broken the record — previously held by Apollo 13 — for the farthest distance any humans have ever ...
Scientific American

NASA’s Artemis moon missions are a game changer for astronomy

NASA’s Artemis II mission is only the tip of the space agency’s lunar-exploration spear: planning for a plethora of ...

What’s Inside NASA’s Mission Control

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the ...

How NASA Achieved the Historic Artemis II Splashdown

They were flying a spacecraft that had never carried crew before and entering the atmosphere on a trajectory that had never ...

Why NASA sent ‘organ chips’ of the Artemis II crew into space

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

Inside the Southern California effort to study NASA’s troubled moon-rocket heat shield

So, a team of NASA and Department of Defense scientists and test pilots stand at the ready to collect detailed data on how ...