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NASA says its Artemis 2 moon rocket is all fixed up. It could launch astronauts to the moon on April 1Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsSign up to our monthly entertainment newsletter to keep up with all our coverage of the latest sci-fi and space movies, tv shows, games and books.
Discover this week's must-see night sky events, moon phases, and stunning astrophotos. Sign up for our skywatching newsletter and explore the universe with us!Space.com's Sci-Fi Reader's Club. Read a sci-fi short story every month and join a virtual community of fellow science fiction fans!CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A massive solar eruption from the sun poses no threat to NASA's planned launch of itstriggered a radio blackout over parts of Asia and Australia when it exploded from an active sunspot late Sunday at 11:19 p.m. EDT . The flare also launched a coronal mass ejection, or CME, of solar plasma in Earth's direction, but the space weather should settle down before "We're not expecting the CME to cause any effects," Amit Kshatriya, NASA's Associate Administrator, told reporters here at the Kennedy Space Center during a press conference."We're not tracking concerns for the mission in general."Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn't launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests Kshatriya said NASA's Artemis 2 mission management team gave the official"go" decision to proceed with a launch attempt on April 1. Liftoff is set for 6:24 p.m. EDT . You can follow the mission with our"The team concluded that everything continues to look good and there are no issues preventing us from pressing ahead at this point," Kshatriya said.for astronauts and satellites in space if an X-class flare, the most powerful type of sun storm, or CME blasts them with dangerous radiation. That's why NASA's Artemis 2 mission already has plans to test a space radiation shelter plan for its four-astronaut crew. "One of our test objectives is to set up a radiation shelter, so we'll be doing that anyway, even without a radiation event," Artemis 2 flight director Emily Nelson told reporters during the NASA briefing."Basically, we've got a section of the spacecraft that we would set up in and the crew would stay in that area until we gave them the all clear that the radiation event had passed."Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsThe astronauts arrived here at their launch site on Friday and are in a prelaunch health quarantine. Today, they visited the launch pad and posed for a crew photo with their SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. They are expected to have dinner with close family members at NASA's famed astronaut beach house, where astronaut crews have relaxed before missions for decades, Nelson said. A dazzling double rainbow seen over NASA's Kennedy Space Center just days before the Artemis 2 launch on March 30, 2026.The astronauts may have had a phenomenal view of Florida's Space Coast. Shortly after NASA's press conference today, a dazzling double rainbow arced over the Kennedy Space Center on the heels of an afternoon drizzle. NASA is actually expecting clear skies on launch day, with an 80% chance of good weather for Artemis 2's liftoff.every day this week for complete coverage of NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon. If you're looking for ways to express your excitement,and joined the team in 2001. He covers human spaceflight, as well as skywatching and entertainment. He became Space.com's Editor-in-Chief in 2019. Before joining Space.com, Tariq was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering education and city beats in La Habra, Fullerton and Huntington Beach. He's a recipient of thefrom the National Space Society. He is an Eagle Scout and Space Camp alum with journalism degrees from the USC and NYU. You can find Tariq at Space.com and as the co-host to theNASA says its Artemis 2 moon rocket is all fixed up. It could launch astronauts to the moon on April 1'This is really getting real.' NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket fueling test went so well, astronauts could launch March 6Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be nearly 12 billion years old — so ancient its star system may no longer existInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be nearly 12 billion years old — so ancient its star system may no longer exist Darth Maul was originally going to be the villain of the 'Star Wars' sequels; here's why that would have been a bad idea
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