Oops! NASA Once Lost a $125 Million Spacecraft Because Engineers Forgot to Convert to Metric

The accidental use of Imperial instead of metric units meant doom for the Mars Climate Orbiter.

NASA readies Artemis mission sending astronauts into orbit around the moon

Humans could return to the moon’s environs for the first time in more than 50 years.

NASA is shooting for the moon. A guide to the Artemis II mission

In a throwback to Apollo, NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They’ll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back. No circling around the moon,

NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won’t be far behind

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida — The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members set to fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission were Navy test pilots before joining the astronaut corps.

Moon rocket and weather are on NASA’s side for the first astronaut launch in decades

After weeks of fuel leaks and other issues, NASA faced a trouble-free countdown Tuesday on the eve of astronauts’ first trip to the moon in more than half a century. NASA is shooting for the moon. A guide to the Artemis II mission In wrangling dark matter,
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NASA/JPL’s ‘Deep Space Network’ team’s latest mission: Make sure Artemis II astronauts receive and send data, radio calls

Helping the astronauts of Artemis II speak to the folks on Earth is the Deep Space Network, operated out of Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Closeout Crew prepare to send the Artemis II astronauts off on launch day

Meet the Amentum Closeout Crew, the last people Artemis II astronauts will see before their historic journey to the moon.