"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn't want people to say, 'Oh look, the woman has made a mistake'. Because it wasn't just about me, it was about the women to follow me," she says.

The towering rocket tasked with launching NASA's next moon astronauts on their historic lunar journey has come together.

Several Moon lander concepts were proposed and trialled during NASA's initial application period for Artemis III. One was the Dynetics HLS ALPACA lander, which would have been cheaper and simpler than Starship or Blue Origin's alternative while requiring fewer refuel launches.

Analog missions, like those conducted at NASA’s CHAPEA facility at the Johnson Space Center, help scientists study human spaceflight without leaving Earth.

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe.

"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago."

Though NASA has begun building Artemis 3, Artemis 2 hasn't left Earth. Delays have held it up, but parallel development is also just a complicated process.