NASA Moon Mission

• Artemis II: Why NASA is sending a crew around the moon after 50 years

  Back to the moon? Not quite, but close. Here's what NASA wants from the lunar orbit program known as Artemis II and why a Canadian will be on board.

  Science

  Apr 3, 2023
  
• Canada poised to unveil ‘significant’ role in upcoming NASA Artemis lunar mission

  NASA put the first men on the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s but the Artemis mission marks the first attempt to return to the lunar surface, with plans to stay.

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2020
  
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• Canada joins Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led mission to send human explorers back to the Moon

  NASA says space agencies in Australia, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates also joined the pact.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2020
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• Intense work being done on rocket to set up moon base: NASA

  Crews are working around the clock at a NASA rocket factory, intent on meeting a new fall 2020 deadline to test launch a mega-rocket designed to propel astronauts to the moon and beyond.

  Science

  Jun 28, 2019
• Trump: NASA shouldn’t focus on the moon, but Mars, ‘of which the Moon is a part’

  Donald Trump tweeted about NASA's focus on the moon, weeks after he tweeted that astronauts are going back there.

  Politics

  Jun 7, 2019
• Canada joins NASA-led moon mission, dubbed ‘Lunar Gateway’

  NASA is embarking on the creation of its new Lunar Gateway, a space station it plans to send into orbit around the moon starting in 2022.

  Canada

  Feb 28, 2019
• Here’s why the head of NASA wants Canadian boots – and tech – on the next moon mission

  Canada has an apparent invite to be in on the next NASA moon mission with its expertise in artificial intelligence.

  Canada

  Nov 14, 2018
• Trump directs NASA to send Americans to the Moon, lay foundations for Mars mission

  "This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint."

  Science

  Dec 11, 2017