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Lunar Space Station for NASA’s Artemis Campaign to Begin Final Outfitting
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NASA continues to mark progress on plans to work with commercial and international partners as part of the Gateway program. The primary structure of HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) arrived at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona, where it will…

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NASA Tests Key Spacesuit Parts Inside This Icy Chamber
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A JPL facility built to support potential robotic spacecraft missions to frozen ocean worlds helps engineers develop safety tests for next-generation spacesuits. When NASA astronauts return to the Moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture farther into the solar…

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Can Solar Wind Make Water on Moon? NASA Experiment Shows Maybe 
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Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind smashes into the lunar surface, the idea goes, it…

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NASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to US
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From Italy to Arizona: Gateway’s first habitation module takes a major step on its path to launch.

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6 Things to Know About NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer
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The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it’s in, how much is there, and how it changes over time. Launching no earlier than Wednesday, Feb. 26, NASA’s Lunar…

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NASA Prepares Gateway Lunar Space Station for Journey to Moon
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Assembly is underway for Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element, the module that will power the lunar space station’s journey to and around the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign.

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NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station
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NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.

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How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon
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Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer arrived in Florida recently in advance…

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Lunar Space Station Module Will Journey to US ahead of NASA’s Artemis IV Moon Mission
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A key element of the Gateway lunar space station has entered the cleanroom for final installations after completing environmental stress tests.

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Why Does the Moon Look Larger at the Horizon? We Asked a NASA Scientist: Episode 50
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Why does the Moon look larger on the horizon? The short answer is, we don’t know.

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