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Japan's Hakuto-R spacecraft is preparing to make a historic lunar landing attempt on April 25.

Headlines proclaiming the rise of a new “space race” between the U.S. and China have become common in news coverage following many of the exciting launches in recent years. Experts have pointed to China’s rapid advancements in space as evidence of an emerging landscape where China is directly competing with…

If all goes to plan, sometime in November 2024, NASA’s newly announced Artemis II crew – Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – will cram themselves into their Orion space capsule and begin their final checks for launch.

Inverse spoke with astronaut Christina Hammock Koch the day after NASA announced her as the first woman to fly to the Moon for Artemis II.

Nasa has included a woman and a Black man in the crew for a lunar mission for the first time.

The Artemis II mission, launching in 2024, will send four astronauts to circle Earth's moon

On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of Artemis II, which is scheduled to launch in late 2024. The Artemis II mission will send these four astronauts on a 10-day mission that culminates in a flyby of the Moon. While they won’t…

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Artemis II mission, scheduled for 2024, is NASA’s first manned moon mission in 50 years, a prelude to Mars exploration.