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Simulated Moon Landing

NASA has certified a new lander flight training course using helicopters, marking a key milestone in crew training for Artemis missions to the Moon. During the two-week certification run, NASA astronauts participated in flight and landing training in northern Colorado to help certify the course.

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A LUH-72 Lakota helicopter flies over the mountains of northern Colorado Aug. 28 during a certification run for a lander flight training course for crewed Artemis missions. The mountains and valleys in Colorado have similar visual illusions to the Moon.

A Brief Outburst

The Sun blew out a coronal mass ejection along with part of a solar filament over a three-hour period on Feb. 24, 2015. While some of the strands fell back into the Sun, a substantial part raced into space in a bright cloud of particles (as observed by the NASA-ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft). Because this occurred way over near the edge of the Sun, it was unlikely to have any effect on Earth.

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Artemis

Send Your Name Around the Moon

Artemis II will test NASA’s deep space capabilities as humans fly on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the first time. Join the mission by launching your name around the moon alongside NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

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Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum use a massive crane to lift to vertical the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis II on Saturday, March 22, 2025, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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