Artemis III to test docking in low-Earth orbit before NASA returns astronauts to the lunar surface

NASA will send Artemis III to low-Earth orbit instead of the moon, testing docking systems before a planned 2028 lunar landing.

NASA revamps Artemis moon landing program to reduce flight gaps and risk

The shake-up in the flight lineup and push for a faster pace came just two days after NASA’s new moon rocket returned to its hangar for more repairs and a safety panel warned the space agency to scale back its overly ambitious goals for humanity’s first lunar landing in more than half a century.

NASA rolls Artemis II moon rocket back to the garage to try and hit April launch window

NASA sent the Artemis II rocket back from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly Building to fix a problem in the rocket’s upper stage.
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NASA Adds Lunar Lander Docking Demo In LEO, Cancels SLS Upgrades

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is revising its Artemis lunar exploration initiative with a new mission to dock one or both human lunar landing systems with a crewed Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) ahead of landing astronauts on the Moon. NASA also is ...

NASA announces major changes to Artemis II program: ‘This is just not the right pathway forward’

While NASA crews are working on issues that forced a rollback of the Artemis II rocket from the large pad, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced changes Friday in the overall program that seeks to return humans to the Moon.
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Artemis II: NASA rocket returns to hangar for repairs. When could it launch?

NASA is expected to provide an update about the Artemis II mission during a news conference on Friday.

Old Apollo rocks shed new light on the moon’s magnetic field long ago

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even nonexistent, but cranked up to superstrength for short snippets of time more than a billion years ago.