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NASA Is Keeping the Astronauts Safe

How NASA’s ‘cowboys in airplanes’ could help save astronauts

NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of astronauts should something go wrong during launch — is the result of years...

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Former NASA astronaut on what Artemis II astronauts will be doing in space

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How NASA Is Keeping the Astronauts Safe During the Artemis II Mission

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Artemis II Launch: Watch Live as NASA Sends Astronauts to Moon

NASA is set to make history Wednesday evening as it launches Artemis II, the first crewed mission to travel toward the moon in more than 50 years.

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NASA's Artemis II mission launches, sending astronauts back to the moon

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How Artemis II astronauts plan to capture a new ‘Earthrise’

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WATCH: Artemis 2 launch success as four astronauts start journey around the moon

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are on board the vessel.

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NASA launches Artemis II astronauts on mission around the moon

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NASA’s Artemis II mission aims for permanent moon base

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Highlights From the Launch of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission

A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that will go around the moon since 1972.

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NASA approves 6-minute engine burn to send Artemis II toward the moon

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NASA wants a moon base. How Mississippi helps Artemis get there

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Artemis II, Meg Jones, 'Battlefield techniques abuse'

Nasa's Artemis II spacecraft has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and is now orbiting the Earth in the first crewed mission to the Moon in half a century.

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Artemis II launches from NASA's KSC, Florida: Astronauts off on moon mission

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NASA gives a ‘go’ for final major engine firing to put mission on course for the moon

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Artemis II proves America still leads in space from Florida

During the mission, astronauts will test every system aboard the Orion spacecraft.

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Artemis II launches successfully

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Reactions as Artemis II astronauts lift off on historic lunar mission

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Chilling final words of Space Shuttle Challenger pilot before explosion killed 7

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words revealed something was very wrong.

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NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its storability and simplicity,

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NASA SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral seen in West Palm Beach

At 5:15 a.m. ET Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 — a Friday the 13th — four crew members from three space agencies, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12, launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff was seen far beyond the launch pad. Nearly two ...