South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also contribute its TACHELES cubesat. While Artemis 2 will send astronauts around the moon, the cubesats will have their own science objectives.

This week on Space Beat, Rob and Space reporter Brooke Edwards discuss the NASA directive to put a nuclear reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for more than 40 years, but that may be about to change.

LOWER MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. - A Lehigh Valley company is playing a major role in NASA's mission to get astronauts back on the Moon. This week, Air Products, the industrial gas company based in Lower Macungie, completed the first fill of NASA's new hydrogen sphere at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.

NASA's Artemis II mission, set to send four astronauts on a nearly 10-day mission around the moon and back, will advance the agency's goal to land astronauts at the moon's south polar region and will help set the stage for future crewed Mars missions.

NASA's Artemis 2 mission — the first-ever crewed mission of the Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) — is targeting a liftoff between February and April of 2026. Aboard Orion will be NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – A local library is ready for launch, as it celebrates NASA’s upcoming mission to the moon. Broome County Public Library is hosting an event in the Decker Room next Wednesday to teach families about the Artemis Two Mission coming up in 2026.