The Artemis II crew is almost at the moon , and the astronauts spent this weekend carrying out preparations for their lunar flyby on Monday

They range from realistic recreations of pinball tables youll find at arcades to games that could never exist in real life like 2019s Demons Tilt or older ones like Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS or Pokmon Pinball for the Game Boy Color. I didnt expect to find a detailed pinball game for the humble and delightful Playdate, but a pair of developers working under the name Amano pulled it off with Devils on the Moon Pinball , which arrived last week

NASA has long maintained tight control over what astronauts can bring into space, but the ongoing Artemis II mission marks a notable shift. For the first time, the agency has allowed crew members to carry iPhones during a mission around the Moon, albeit under strict conditions

The astronauts will arrive about 10,300 kilometers beyond our satellite, breaking all previous records for distance from Earth

The Artemis II crew has passed 100,000 miles from Earth and is now on a "free-return" path around the moon after a successful "translunar" injection burn

Congress will likely reject the White House's NASA cuts, just as it did last year.

The cabin was colder on Thursday, but the crew has been able to adjust the temperature.

Version 1.7.30.8 tweaks the UI across several cards, including a more compact moon phase tracker.

It remains one of the few PC companies thats still firmly committed to the idea of personal computing. Also, we celebrate the successful launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, which will bring us back to the Moon (but just for a close look)

NASAs Artemis II successfully launched on April 1 , with its crew on a 10-day mission to circle the Moon

The Integrity, the name of the Orion capsule carrying Artemis II astronauts on a trip around the moon, has left Earths orbit

As the Artemis II mission continues towards the moon, we should be treated to some high-def video soon

Artemis II sends humans toward the moon again after half a century

I dont think we could be more pleased."

Take a look at the flight path for the four astronauts in NASAs Artemis II mission. After launching on April 1, they will complete a 10-day test flight traveling twice around the Earth and once around the Moon before returning home.

U.S. launches first crewed moon mission in 50 years

Even on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, astronauts apparently still have to deal with broken Microsoft Outlook

The mission commanders email inbox failed during the journey to the moon

NASA has struggled to deal with the widespread sentiment that NASA has been there, done that."

Brace yourselves for exciting high-resolution 4K footage live-streamed from the surface of the moon via NASA's cutting-edge O2O system

And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned Toilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday

NASA has successfully launched its Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts on a historic journey around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era

The Artemis II mission successfully launched into space on April 1, at 6:35pm Eastern time, from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will take NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day trip around the moon

IPO, reportedly targeting a valuation above $1.75 trillion. Reuters reports: SpaceX puts more rockets in space than any other company and promises a chance to invest in humanity's return to the moon and attempt to colonize Mars

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

US launches Artemis II crewed moon mission

Liftoff of Artemis II with four astronauts occurred at 6:35 pm EDT (22:35 UTC) on Wednesday.

NASA's Artemis II mission has launched four astronauts around the moon and back, marking humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in 53 years and the first test flight of NASA's Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) with people on board

NASA's Artemis II rocket lifted off Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon the first crewed lunar flight in more than 50 years.

SpaceX is reportedly planning to use the funds it brings in from its IPO to turbocharge its various ambitions, including its struggling Starship program . The company also has designs on building a base on the moon , going to Mars and putting AI data centers in orbit

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.

Full launch coverage begins at 12:50 PM ET on NASA+, Amazon Prime or the YouTube video embedded below. The Artemis II mission will take NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day trip around the moon

"I just don't want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there."

Heres everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.

Cosmic Perspective is filming NASA's Artemis II Moon mission launch in Apple Immersive Video to create a flagship experience for Apple Vision Pro

"Things are certainly starting to feel real here at the Cape."

Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years NASA is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon, with the Artemis II mission countdown set to begin tonight.

There's no radiation coming from it. It doesn't actually turn on until you're up in space, and that's where the radiation comes from." NASA says they aim to develop the capabilities required "for sustained exploration beyond the Moon and eventual journeys to Mars and the outer solar system." And Space Reactor-1 Freedom will carry a fleet of tiny helicopters (much like Ingenuity) to explore Mars, reports Space.com: Whereas Ingenuity was a technology demonstrator, however, the Skyfall fleet will have concrete tasks

The first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis moon program may take off in a matter of days, with a launch window that opens on April 1, and as preparations are underway for that, the space agency is refocusing its plan to establish a human presence on the moon

The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis II mission arrived in Florida on Friday, entering the final preparations for the first crewed journey to the moon in over 50 years.

Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence NASA's new Moon plan isn't the only policy shift causing concern

YouTuber Scott Manley demonstrated using a ZX Spectrum home computer launched in 1982 to land a spacecraft on the Kerbal Space Program spaceflight simulator

"It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things."

Apple TV has just dropped the first teaser for Star City , which focuses on the reimagined space race of the 1960s from the Soviet perspective. ICYMI, For All Mankind has been running for nearly five seasons now (the fifth arrives later this week), with its debut season in 2019 asking, "what if Russia had beaten America to the moon?" For All Mankind has jumped a number of decades ahead since then, but Star City returns us to that initial premise, taking us behind the Iron Curtain to see how the Soviet Union orchestrated its fictional historical triumph

BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown Could Sinclair's 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum land a spacecraft on the Moon? YouTuber Scott Manley decided to find out, and the answer is kind of.

The new plan would cost tens of billions over the next decade, though the change could face hurdles because Congress previously funded Gateway specifically. SpaceNews reports: "Starting today, we're building humanity's first deep space outpost," said Carlos Garcia-Galan, program executive for NASA's moon base effort

"Everyone wants to be on the surface."

Season five takes place in the 2010s, which gives season six plenty of time to catch up to the 2020s. For the uninitiated, For All Mankind is an alt-history series that started in the 1960s with Russia beating America to the moon

NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparently NASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface

NASA on Tuesday announced a set of initiatives to accelerate a return to the Moon, including pausing the Gateway lunar orbit station in its current form, and building a sustained lunar surface presence.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before.

" What's obvious to us is you're going to have multiple vehicles with myriad companies go into space. You're going to have vehicles leaving from celestial bodies, like the moon

SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone? NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some sources calling it a done deal.

Better than seismometers? Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions

The idea may not be so far-fetched. In a preprint posted this month on bioRxiv, researchers show potatoes can indeed grow in the equivalent of Moon dust, though they need a lot of help from compost found on Earth

Still aiming for April 1 if the weather plays ball The rollback to the launchpad for NASA's monster Moon rocket has slipped by a day, though the agency is optimistic that the long-delayed return of humans to lunar space will still happen in early April.

'When we tank the vehicle ..

As always, we'll be guided by what the hardware is telling us, and we will launch when we're ready." Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, and John Honeycutt, Artemis II Mission Management Team chair (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP via Getty Images) GREGG NEWTON via Getty Images Artemis II is set to be NASA's first crewed lunar mission since the early 1970s. The 10-day mission will carry four astronauts around the Moon and back to the Earth

That would bounce sunlight to illuminate a circular patch about three miles wide on the Earth's surface. Someone looking up would see a dot in the sky about as bright as a full moon

Not a US flag in sight Researchers from China are narrowing down the landing sites for the nations first crewed mission to the Moon, set to take place before 2030.

For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Earth impact was soon ruled out, the asteroid faded from view with a lingering 4% chance of striking the Moon on 22 December 2032