Approximating the lander's effects on the moon’s surface are critical to planning a safe journey for Artemis astronauts. By Andrew Paul Published Nov 17, 2023 8:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

Lunar missions are set to take place in the future, with NASA's Artemis among the many planning for future ventures, but for now, studies and assessments are done to ensure every factor to account. In ...

This is the Apollo 11 lunar lander ground track — the flight path over the moon's surface — in the final approximately 3 minutes when Neil Armstrong skirted the rocky flank of West Crater to land ...

The 55th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, is drawing nigh. The anniversary falls under the shadow of the Artemis program, which intends to land ...

One of the last failures simulated before Apollo 11's launch was an alarm on the lunar lander that signaled the computer was overloaded. During the simulation, Mission Control in Houston aborted the ...

NASA's supercomputer is helping reconstruct Apollo lander effects to help plan Artemis missions. NASA recently showed off one of these simulations—the Apollo 12 landing—during its appearance at SC23, ...