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NASA is offering live coverage of its Artemis mission, giving viewers around the world a chance to see the pioneering rocket launch. It kicks of a decades-long mission to get people back on the moon

The flight is the first in the agency’s Artemis programme and will be uncrewed this time.

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A cuddly toy of the beloved Aardman character has been assigned a lucky seat on the mammoth 42-day trip into space, with the first human astronauts not set to land on the moon until 2025

NASA's most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the space program called Artemis is to get under way with the blast off…

NASA is fueling its new moon rocket for liftoff on its first test flight, after a weather delay

Martian rocks that could contain signs of life have been collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover.

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Problem with one of four rockets calls halt to Monday’s scheduled launch, with next attempt due on 2 September

Tens of thousands of people gather in Cape Canaveral for launch of NASA’s Artemis mission to return humans to the moon.

Sensor-rigged dummies named Moonikin Campos, Helga and Zohar will oversee cargo ranging from cubesats to Apollo artefacts and Shaun the Sheep