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NASA unveils its Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 space mission, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission scheduled for late 2024, will take a crew of four astronauts to the Moon. IMAGES
The European Space Agency and its Russian counterpart are sending a lander to the moon’s south pole as part of their plan to settle humans permanently on Earth’s closest neighbor.
Images of a model depicting the trajectory of Japan's Moon craft, which has landed on the lunar surface, space agency JAXA announces. IMAGES
Aditya-L1 blasts off from the launchpad at Sriharikota island on a voyage to the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned Moon landing. IMAGES
NASA's Orion space capsule splashes down safely in the Pacific, completing the Artemis-1 mission -- a more than 25-day journey around the Moon with an eye to returning humans there in coming years. IMAGES
A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if its course can be altered blasts off from California. The SpaceX rocket carrying the experiment lifted off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time (0621 GMT Wednesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA TV's livestream showed. IMAGES