The Artemis II rocket and spacecraft are already on the launchpad and undergoing pre-launch testing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber NASA is gearing up for an exciting next step in returning humans to the Moon this month. As early as Feb. 6,...
Photo Credit: exploredeepspace.com According to a story found on exploredeepspace.com, on this day in 1970, the USSR’s Luna 16 mission landed in Kazakhstan with the first samples of lunar soil ever to be returned by a robotic spacecraft. While the Soviet lunar program...