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NASA said it's revamping its Artemis moon exploration program to make it more like the fast-paced Apollo program half a century ago. The plan means adding an extra practice flight before attempting a high-risk lunar landing with a crew in two years. This could mean more work in the Huntsville area, with more launches of NASA’s Alabama built super rocket called the “Space Launch System” or SLS.

NASA's giant Artemis Two rocket is now on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The 322-foot rocket was rolled out to Launch Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, with an Orion capsule that will send three American astronauts and one Canadian astronaut on a mission around the moon. The giant moon rocket is known as the “Space Launch System,” or SLS. The new booster was designed, tested, and managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville

NASA began demolishing part of its own history over the weekend. Crews at the Marshall Space Flight Center are removing the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facilities. These structures prepared the engines for the space shuttle and the Apollo moon missions. Now, Artemis-2 awaits.

On Sunday, July 2, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center will launch a free summer activity celebrating 50 years since the launch of Skylab. This latest session is called “Living in Space” and discusses long-duration living in space and microgravity and its effects on human’s body.

Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi test fired a redesigned engine for the Artemis Moon rocket, managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

NASA is going over data from its Orion crew capsule before declaring the mission a success. The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville is managing the spacecraft and the new rocket that launched it to Earth orbit.

CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he has died at age 82. A statement from the family says he died…