NASA, Boeing and International Space Station
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NASA released a scathing report blasting the agency and Boeing for the failed Starliner mission. Another 2025 report came to a different conclusion.
The results keep the Artemis II mission on track for liftoff as soon as next month. NASA gave up on a series of February launch opportunities after encountering a persistent hydrogen leak during the first Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR).
The four astronauts heading to the moon for the lunar fly-by are the first humans to venture there since 1972. The ten-day mission will travel more than 600,000 miles.
NASA is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in decades, as Artemis II moves closer to launch and a new lunar race quietly intensifies.
The agency held a press briefing to discuss the results of the redo wet dress rehearsal at 11 a.m. ET on Friday. During the briefing, Artemis launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson said the leak repairs proved to be “rock solid” and that there was “really no leakage to speak of.”
According to Space.com and Cornell University, NASA astronauts conducted a microbe-based meteorite mining experiment aboard the International Space Station to study mineral extraction in microgravity.
NASA is eyeing March 6 to launch four astronauts on the Artemis II mission around the moon, officials announced after completing a fueling test and launch-day walkthrough.
On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...]