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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.
Nasa is to shake up its Artemis lunar programme after repeated delays, scheduling more frequent missions with the aim of landing astronauts on the Moon twice in 2028.
NASA is shaking up its Artemis mission to the moon, canceling a multibillion-dollar Boeing Co. upgrade to the centerpiece SLS rocket and adding another test flight to a program beset by delays and cost overruns.
As of Saturday, Feb. 28, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 88% of the Moon will be lit up tonight.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman reveals timeline for Artemis Moon missions, promising three launches during Trump's term despite Artemis II delays.
NASA decided to roll Artemis 2's SLS back into the VAB to deal with a helium flow malfunction discovered after a fueling test.
The Moon doesn't have tectonic plates that move around like Earth's, but it does have its own internal activity. After it formed around 4.5 billion years ago, it was a hot, gooey ball of molten material that has been slowly cooling ever since.
Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even nonexistent, but cranked up to superstrength for short snippets of time more than a billion years ago.