The Artemis 2 crew captured a spellbinding photo of the crescent Earth shining above the moon's horizon on Flight Day 6 of their mission, shortly before our planet was lost behind the lunar horizon. White clouds can be seen swirling on Earth's sunlit arc above the line separating night from day while the cratered expanse of the lunar disk stretches out below.

Microgravity is also an ideal environment for growing the kind of defect-free crystals needed for semiconductors and AI chips. She notes that a single crystal could be produced in space and brought back to Earth to seed more error-free crystals effectively.

Artemis I lasted 25 days, focused on testing the Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle moniker, not only for a return flight to the moon but also for missions much farther into space. One legacy of the Apollo adventure is providing a foundation for much more expansive space exploration. This successful test mission was launched on Nov. 16, 2025.

Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our collective ingenuity.

The National Air and Space Museum’s Virginia location now displays the objects which represent critical leaps forward in technology and exploration by NASA

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

There seems to be something of a “been there, done that” impression this time, a sense that the American public wasn’t “sold” in advance on the Artemis objectives. In terms of public interest, space flight seems to be losing out to college basketball.

The events serve as the official lead-up to the Downtown Hays Science Festival, scheduled for Sunday, May 3. To ensure an intimate experience, attendance for the Adventures in Space events are strictly limited to 100 participants per session.

A new era of high-speed space exploration may be on the horizon as researchers at the University of Basel have successfully tested a semi-autonomous, four-legged robot capable of