Artemis II astronauts make long-distance call to the space station as they head home from the moon
The article reports on Artemis II astronauts communicating with the International Space Station during their return from the moon, highlighting their historic radio linkup, scientific data collection, and personal reflections on Earth's beauty. It also mentions mission updates, including technical challenges and future Artemis missions.
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“Artemis II astronauts made more history by making a long-distance call to the International Space Station as they headed home from the moon.”
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— Artemis II is a ten-day lunar flyby mission with a crew of four astronauts that launched on April 1, 2026. It is the first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond lo…
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— Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
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— The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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“It was the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup ever.”
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— Artemis II is a ten-day lunar flyby mission with a crew of four astronauts that launched on April 1, 2026. It is the first crewed flight of NASA's Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond lo…
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— The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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— The Artemis program is a human spaceflight program by the United States. The Artemis program is intended to reestablish a human presence on the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972; mid-ter…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Artemis_missions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Artemis_missions
“NASA's Apollo crews had no off-the-planet company back in the 1960s and 1970s, the last time humanity set sail for deep space.”
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— Apollo 10 (May 18–26, 1969) was the fourth human spaceflight in the United States' Apollo program and the second to orbit the Moon. NASA, the mission's operator, described it as a "dress rehearsal" fo…
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— Apollo 5 (launched January 22, 1968), also known as AS-204, was the uncrewed first flight of the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) that would later carry astronauts to the surface of the Moon. The Saturn IB ro…
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— Apollo 7 (October 11–22, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that had killed the three Apollo 1 astrona…
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“Christina Koch on Artemis II and Jessica Meir aboard the space station had a joyous space reunion despite being 230,000 miles (370,000 kilometers) apart.”
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“Houston's Mission Control arranged the cosmic chitchat between the four lunar travelers and the space station's three NASA and one French residents.”
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“Artemis II astronauts beamed back more than 50 gigabytes' worth of pictures and other data from the previous day's lunar rendezvous.”
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“The lunar rendezvous set a new distance record for humanity.”
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“The astronauts spotted a cascade of pinpricks of light on the lunar surface from impacting cosmic debris, coinciding with Monday evening's total solar eclipse.”
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“The first lunar explorers since Apollo 17 in 1972, Wiseman and his crew are aiming for a splashdown off the San Diego coast on Friday.”
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“Artemis III will conduct a lunar lander docking demo in orbit around Earth, and Artemis IV will attempt to land near the lunar south pole in 2028.”
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“The Orion capsule's toilet has been on-and-off limits to the crew since last week's launch, prompting reliance on a backup bag-and-funnel system.”
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“NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated that engineers suspect a clogged filter in the overboard flushing system caused the toilet issue.”
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