High in the sky over the Pacific Ocean, a special mission has begun to save a valuable space telescope. NASA is working with a company called Katalyst Space Technologies in a tricky effort to rescue its Swift satellite.
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Last Friday evening, NASA's Artemis II mission came to an exciting end as the Orion spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean. The mission marked the first time in 53 years that astronauts have traveled around the moon. Its success brings NASA one step closer to its goal of sending humans to the moon again.
On Monday, the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission became the first humans to go behind the moon in over 50 years. The four astronauts on the mission are now on their way home, after traveling farther away from Earth than anyone ever has before. The spaceship is expected to splash down on Friday.
NASA is preparing for a historic space launch that could take astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972. The flight, called Artemis II, is a key step in NASA's plan to return to the moon. The launch is scheduled for 6:24 p.m. tonight, New York time.
On Monday, the aerospace company Blue Origin launched its spacecraft RSS Kármán Line on a ten minute trip into space. The spaceship carried the first all-female crew to go into space since Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo mission in 1963.
On Sunday, SpaceX launched its Starship rocket for the fifth time. The real excitement came when the 20-story-tall booster rocket returned to the launch site and was caught in mid-air by two giant metal arms.
Tensions are rapidly rising between North and South Korea. The situation got worse quickly after North Korea launched a rocket that sent a spy satellite into space. Both sides have now pulled away from a 2018 agreement that was meant to prevent conflicts.
NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down safely on Sunday, successfully completing the space agency's Artemis I mission around the moon. In other moon news, a private Japanese company launched a lunar lander that will deliver a rover and a robot to the moon.
Today NewsForKids.net takes a look at several recent stories of space exploration. India has launched its first private rocket into space. Uganda and Zimbabwe both recently sent their first satellites into space. And NASA's Orion mission has reached the moon, and gone past it.
Yesterday, NASA's massive SLS rocket blasted off, sending the spacecraft Orion on its way to the moon. It's the first flight of NASA's Artemis project, which will later send astronauts to the moon. The current flight is testing the safety of several systems.
On Monday, China launched the final section of its Tiangong space station into space. After a 13-hour trip, the new section, known as Mengtian, docked with the space station on Tuesday morning, finally completing it.