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NASA’s Artemis program is preparing to return astronauts to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo missions more than fifty years ago. The new lunar missions aim to explore previously unvisited regions of the Moon, particularly the south pole, where water ice may exist, while testing technologies needed for long-duration human exploration. By learning how to live and work on the Moon, NASA hopes to build the foundation for future missions deeper into space, including the first human journeys to Mars.

In the upcoming next stage of the Artemis Program, SpaceX is gearing up for a launch slated for 12:57 a.m. EST on Wednesday, February 14th, to send Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander to the Moon's surface using a Falcon 9 rocket. The action will kick off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest optical telescope in space, primarily designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high infrared sensitivity and resolution allow it to view objects otherwise unable to be observed.

The Artemis program is a planned NASA-led spaceflight program to explore the Moon, aiming for a touchdown near the lunar south pole by 2024.

Ax-1 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 8, 2022, beginning a 10-day journey that includes eight days aboard the ISS, as the first-ever fully private crewed mission to launch to International Space Station.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, IXPE, is a space observatory that was launched on December 9, 2021, designed to measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays.

2020 has been an unprecedented year, but who knew we would get some of the most exciting space news in such a tumultuous year?

It has been nearly 50 years since travel outside of low-Earth orbit has seemed possible, but now, with the impending Artemis Deep Space Outpost, and NASA's announcement of the Artemis crew, it could become a reality once more. As the future of space travel looms ahead of us, we must recognize how far we have come since the start of the "Space Race" and how groundbreaking it is to have traveled to the Moon at all.

Spirit and Opportunity were launched in 2003, making their way to Mars by 2004, where they both successfully landed on the surface. Their purpose was to explore Mars and search for signs of past life, both rovers outlasting their planned 90-day mission.

NASA and ESA have come to an agreement on the collaboration for the Artemis Gateway earlier this week!