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Added on the 11/08/2023 09:29:46 - Copyright : Euronews EN
NASA isn’t the only space agency focussed on missions to the Moon. Later this week, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, will launch its own lunar landing vehicle.
India has successfully launched a new mission to land a robot explorer on the South Pole of the moon, a journey that will take over a month.
The launch of the last Ariane 5 mission leaves the European Space Agency (ESA) without its own launcher for the first time in over 40 years.
The Artemis 1 mission is a crucial unmanned test flight, which comes ahead of the crewed missions Artemis 2 and 3.
50 years ago the US became the first country to land men on the moon. Now, NASA has a new moon programme called Artemis, the aim being to go to the moon again by 2024. Bryan Quinn reports.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.