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e. The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1. It is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The program's stated long-term goal is ...
List of missions to the Moon. Missions to the Moon have been numerous and include some of the earliest space missions, conducting exploration of the Moon since 1959. The first partially successful lunar mission was Luna 1 (January 1959), the first probe to leave Earth and fly past another astronomical body.
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA 's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
Nasa has successfully launched its Artemis moon mission, after a series of failed attempts earlier in the year. Artemis 1 took off at 6.47am (1.47am local time), with Nasa’s Space Launch System ...
Missions scheduled to launch in the next few years are the first steps of a bold plan to establish a permanent presence on the lunar surface, but skeptics say these ideas are nothing but science ...
Apollo program. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [ 2] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
The European Space Agency’s Juice mission to study Jupiter’s icy moons will conduct a daring double flyby of Earth and the moon this week to help it reach the largest planet in our solar system.
Apollo 11. / 13.317°N 169.150°W / 13.317; -169.150 ( Apollo 11 splashdown) / 0.67416; 23.47314. Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted by the United States from July 16 to July 24, 1969. It marked the first time in history that humans landed on the Moon.