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The International Space Station is over 254 miles above Earth's surface, allowing Astronauts to witness stunning views of our home planet.

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The Artemis 2 mission will send 4 Astronauts around the Moon to test deep-space and life support systems in preparation for an Artemis 3 crewed landing.

The Space Launch System (SLS) is actually built upon some of the hardware of the Space Shuttle, a spacecraft used to help build the International Space Station and flew from 1981 to 2011.

Engineers replaced the winged orbiter with Orion, while stretching the shuttle’s orange external tank into the rocket’s core stage. Four former shuttle main engines power that core.

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NASA Goddard simulation of falling into a black hole. This simulation was generated in a supercomputer.

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The four-person crew will launch from Florida on the SLS rocket and fly aboard the Orion spacecraft, testing all of its life-support, navigation, and other systems in deep space to make sure everything works properly in preparation for future missions.

They will venture beyond the far side of the Moon before completing a lunar flyby. After travelling for nearly 10 days and over 1 million kilometres, Orion will splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

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Besides a 24-hour Sun going against their models, some believe that no one can visit Antartica due to being part of a coverup.

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The Astronauts will survive the Van Allen radiation belts the same way the Apollo Astronauts did.

During the Apollo missions, the Astronauts survived the Van Allen radiation belts through the spacecraft's trajectory being designed to go through the thinner areas of the upper and lower belts; this resulted in the Apollo astronauts only being in the belts for around an hour.

Furthermore the Apollo command module had a highly-protective aluminum structute to protect against the high intensity radiation.

Artemis will be able to take advantage of the data collected by the Van Allen Probes (RBSP) to further minimize the radiation that crew members incur.

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The NASA Parker Solar Probe is the first ever spacecraft to reach the solar atmosphere. #space

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The Artemis 2 crew consists of four Astronauts and thousands of engineers, technicians, mission controllers, support staff, and partners cross several organizations.

Reid Wiseman is a NASA Astronaut and the commander of the Artemis 2 mission. Wiseman was selected in 2009 to be a NASA Astronaut, and served as a flight engineer aboard the the International Space Station Expedition 41 mission.

Victor Glover is a NASA Astronaut and and the pilot of the Artemis 2 mission. Glover was selected as a NASA Astronaut in 2013 and has served as the pilot of the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.

Christina Koch is a NASA Astronaut and a mission specialist for the Artemis 2 mission. Koch was selected to be a NASA Astronaut in 2013 and has served as a flight engineer on the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 59, 60, and 61 missions.

Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut and a mission specialist. Hansen was selected to be an ESA Astronaut in 2009 and has served in several analog missions, including NEMO and CAVES, and has trained NASA Astronauts.

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The Moon landing photos do not show stars because the cameras were set to photograph very bright subjects. The Moon’s surface and the astronauts’ white suits reflect strong sunlight, so the cameras used fast shutter speeds and low sensitivity. These settings made faint objects like stars too dim to appear in the pictures.

The astronauts used specially modified Hasselblad cameras with exposure settings similar to taking photos on a sunny day on Earth. When you take a daytime photo, the sky often looks empty even though stars are still there. The same thing happened on the Moon—the stars were present but the camera could not capture them.

If you take one of the Moon landing photos and increase the brightness or contrast, some stars can be seen in certain images. This works because a small amount of starlight was captured, just not enough to be visible at normal settings. The lack of stars in the original photos is a normal result of how cameras work, not anything unusual.

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President Richard Nixon spoke from the Oval Office using a standard telephone connected to NASA’s communication network. His voice was converted into radio signals, transmitted via communications satellites, and routed to NASA’s Mission Control in Houston. From there, the signal was sent through the Deep Space Network (DSN), a global system of large radio antennas in California, Spain, and Australia designed to communicate with spacecraft far beyond Earth orbit.

The message was received by Apollo 11’s Lunar Module, Eagle, using its S-band communication system, which handled voice, telemetry, and television signals. Inside the module, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin heard Nixon through their headsets connected to the onboard communications panel. Armstrong spoke into the microphone while Aldrin listened, with a noticeable but manageable delay due to the vast distance and speed of radio waves.

When Armstrong replied, his voice traveled back through Eagle’s S-band transmitter to Earth. The signal was picked up by the Deep Space Network, routed to Mission Control in Houston, and then sent through terrestrial communication lines back to the White House. Nixon heard the astronauts’ voices only seconds after they spoke, completing the first two-way conversation between Earth and the Moon.

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Artemis 2 marks history for the first person of color, woman, and Canadian venturing beyond low-Earth orbit.

The inclusion of Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen reflects on Canada's long term partnership with NASA, including providing the Canadarm3 on the lunar Gateway space station.

Artemis 2 will be the first spaceflight for Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Jeremy is a fighter pilot, physicist, and former aquanaut.

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Elon Musk now considers a 2026 Mars mission a "distraction", shifting focus due to delays in orbital refueling, a conplex but crucial step requiring tanker Starships to fuel a Mars-bound vessel in Earth orbit before deep-space travel.

This bottleneck affects both Mars and NASA's Artemis moon missions, as orbital refueling must be proven before Starship can function as the Artemis human lander. SpaceX is working on in-orbit cryogenic fluid transfer and aims for a self-docking demonstration, though timelines are pushed, with 2029 now a potential uncrewed Mars launch window.

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Artemis II will test and demonstrate optical communications to and from Earth using the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System.

The Optical Communications System is a significant upgrade over the radio-based systems used in the Apollo missions, being able to achieve speeds over 240 mbps.

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17 days marks the first available launch window for Artemis II. The mission will take humans around the Moon to test deep-space systems in preparation for a crewed landing in Artemis III.

If the Space Launch System (SLS) fails the wet dress rehearsel (WDR) test on February 6th, or cannot launch for any other reason, further launch windows include mid-March and early-April.

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Artemis 2 will take humans around the Moon, with the entire mission lasting over 10 days. This mission is intended to test all the deep space systems for future manned lunar exploration in Artemis 3.

This mission marks the first time that humans have traveled to the moon since 1972, over 54 years ago.

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The photo shows towering mountains made of solid water ice and smooth plains of frozen nitrogen on Pluto's surface, lit by the distant Sun.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took its first detailed, close-up pictures of Pluto's surface during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015.

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The crew consists of NASA Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The Artemis II astronauts will circle around the Moon in the Orion capsule and return to Earth, a mission lasting 10 days. The purpose of the Artemis II mission is to verify life support, spacecraft, navigation, and deep space systems before a crewed landing with Artemis III.

The first launch window for Artemis II is scheduled for no earlier than February 6th 2026.

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After almost four decades without a Moon landing, China's first lander and rover, Chang'e 3 landed on the Moon in 2013. #space

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NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft leaving Earth to return to the Moon. #space

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Artemis II will take humans around the Moon, with the entire mission lasting over 10 days. This mission is intended to test all the deep-space systems for future lunar exploration in Artemis III.

This mission marks the first time humans have traveled to the vicinity of the moon since 1972, over 54 years ago.

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NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System is moving to its final destination in Earth. The SLS will carry humans around the Moon for the Artemis II mission, scheduled no earlier than February 6th 2026. #space

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Firefly's Blue Ghost lander landed on the Moon to help NASA conduct experiments on the Moon. #space

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NASA is currently rolling out its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on January 17th.

The Artemis 2 moon rocket consists of NASA's second Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, and is scheduled to launch four astronauts around the moon as early as February 6th 2026.

The Artemis 2 mission will send four astronauts astronaut the Moon, 54 years after the historic Apollo missions.

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