With Artemis II, SLS could become the most powerful rocket ever to launch humans. Its four main engines burn roughly 700,000 gallons of ultra-cold fuel, producing enough oomph to keep eight Boeing 747s aloft. Future versions of SLS, if they come to fruition, could deliver even greater power.

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission: NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen. NASA is weeks away from sending astronauts farther than any crew has traveled before, with the agency's second mission in its Artemis campaign. The Artemis II Press Kit

STORY: NASA will send four astronauts on a ten-day voyage around the moon in 2026 - the latest step in a mission to land humans on the lunar surface for the first time in more than five decades. :: November 16, 2022 But the current Artemis program has ...

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the past 70 years and will remain so for another 60 years.

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target date for delivering a reactor to a launchpad was in the early 2030s. Nuclear space reactors were first developed in the U.S. in the 1950s.