The Artemis Infrared Reflectance and Emission Spectrometer (AIRES) will identify, quantify, and map lunar minerals and volatiles, which are materials that evaporate easily, like water, ammonia, or ...

NASA's new moon toys As for the instruments in question, the first is called the Artemis Infrared Reflectance and Emission Spectrometer (AIRES).

The Artemis 3 Orion capsule under construction at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 3 mission in the late 2025-2026 timeframe, will carry the next man and the first woman to walk on the moon.

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace $176.7 million to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the lunar surface.

NASA said in is release that Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for 2028. "Artemis is a long-term exploration campaign to conduct science at the ...

Artemis 2 will not land any humans on the moon because so many of the hardware and software systems, maneuvers and procedures involved with NASA's planned future moon missions have not been tested ...

The Artemis III mission, planned to hit the the crucial milestone of landing humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo program, will not take off until at least September 2026, NASA ...

The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) for NASA’s Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission is prepared for packing inside a laboratory in the Space ...