Space exploration
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Space exploration is the physical investigation of outer space by uncrewed robotic space probes and through human spaceflight.
Buzz Aldrin taking a core sample of the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission
Self-portrait of Curiosity rover on Mars's surface, 2012
A V-2 Rocket in the Peenemünde Museum in Germany
Model of a Russian Vostok spacecraft
Artemis program
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The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration, aimed at returning humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo pro
Space exploration
…In the 2020s, the two primary global programs gaining traction are Moon-focused: the Chinese-led International Lunar Research Station and the U.S.-led Artemis program, with its plan to build the Artemis Base Camp on the Moon, each with a set of international partners. The first telescope is said to have been invented…
An artist's rendering of the lunar module (left) and Orion spacecraft envisioned during the Constellation program
The Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean, following the Exploration Flight Test-1 mission
Orion capsule shortly after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2022.
Official crew portrait, clockwise from left: Koch, Glover, Hansen and Wiseman