Behind-the-scenes secrets of NASA mission control

In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track ...
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NASA Astronaut Control Robots In Germany From Space Station

While aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim controlled robots on a simulated martian landscape in ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will take an astronaut crew around the Moon – a space policy expert describes the long road to launch

NASA is once again shooting for the Moon, for the first time since the 1970s. As soon as April 2026, NASA will launch its ...

Pilots at LaGuardia have complained about close calls and air traffic control confusion for years: "Please do something"

For years, pilots have complained about controller miscommunication and close calls with ground vehicles at New York's ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Never-Before-Seen Photos Show Astronaut Neil Armstrong Relaxed and Smiling After He Almost Died in the Gemini 8 Emergency

Few members of the media were at the unexpected arrival site. Military police officer Ron McQueeney was one of the few ...

Purple ‘Alien’ on ISS? NASA debunks the mystery that no one expected

A strange purple object aboard the ISS sparked alien fears online, but NASA revealed it was a potato experiment. It shows how ...

Russian rocket en route to ISS suffers major antenna glitch, triggering remote-control astronaut 'backup plan'

NASA has revealed that Russia's Progress 94 spacecraft failed to deploy one of its antennae, making it impossible for the ...

NASA announces Artemis II mission phases, plans for future Artemis program launches

NASA's next lunar mission, Artemis II, is on track to launch just a week away on April 1 and administrators revealed the ...
Scientific American

Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to ...

Astronauts enter quarantine ahead of their trip to the Moon

As Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates enter a carefully controlled two-week quarantine, NASA applies lessons learned ...

NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar station

Jared Isaacman, who was sworn in at the agency in December, made the announcement at the opening of a day-long event at ...