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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/09/2026

At 8:48 a.m. Eastern time on Sept.

Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/09/2026

Starship reached orbit on its 14th flight, but the 2028 moon landing still waits on three unfinished steps SpaceX's ship circled Earth for the first time on Sept. 28 with an engine out. That settles one requirement for Artemis and leaves the rest of NASA's schedule with little m

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/09/2026

On this day, 2016: Rosetta ends its mission with a controlled descent onto comet 67P, joining the Philae lander it delivered two years earlier. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spac…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 29/09/2026

On this day, 1988: Discovery launches on STS-26, returning the shuttle to flight 32 months after the Challenger accident. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-26

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 28/09/2026

On this day, 2008: SpaceX's Falcon 1 reaches orbit on its fourth attempt — the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to do so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 26/09/2026

On this day, 2022: DART slams into the asteroid moon Dimorphos at 22,000 km/h — the first deliberate test of planetary defense, and it worked. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Astero…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 24/09/2026

At noon near the lunar equator, where Apollo astronauts walked, the ground reaches almost 400 kelvins, about 260 degrees Fahrenheit (127 degrees Celsius). That is hotter than boiling water.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 24/09/2026

A moon suit's hardest job is getting rid of body heat, even next to craters colder than Pluto The lunar surface runs from hotter than boiling water to colder than Pluto. How does one suit keep an astronaut alive across both, and why is the heat inside it the bigger problem?

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21/09/2026

On this day, 2003: Galileo is deliberately flown into Jupiter after 14 years, protecting the possibly habitable moon Europa from contamination. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(spac…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 15/09/2026

On this day, 2017: Cassini ends 13 years at Saturn with a deliberate plunge into the planet's atmosphere, transmitting to the last second. solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassi…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 12/09/2026

On this day, 1962: President Kennedy at Rice University: 'We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.' www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 10/09/2026

Artemis 3's rocket is getting its engines. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [reported on Sept.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 10/09/2026

Artemis 3 astronauts won't enter Starship, even if Orion docks with it Can a moon-lander rehearsal prove enough if the crew never goes inside? The two commercial spacecraft in the mission plan will undergo different tests, with different implications for a lunar landing.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 08/09/2026

On this day, 2016: OSIRIS-REx launches toward asteroid Bennu, beginning America's first asteroid sample return mission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 05/09/2026

On this day, 1977: Voyager 1 launches — sixteen days after its twin, but on a faster path that will carry it farther than any spacecraft in history. voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 03/09/2026

Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 24, technicians began lowering the first of four RS-25 engines into the core stage of the rocket that will fly the Artemis 3 crew. All four have flown before.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 03/09/2026

The rocket for NASA's next moon landing is ahead of schedule. The spacesuit is not. Technicians began bolting shuttle-flown engines into the Artemis 3 rocket this week, comfortably on pace. The suit astronauts would need to actually walk on the moon has a schedule of its own, an

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 03/09/2026

On this day, 1976: Viking 2 lands on Utopia Planitia, joining Viking 1 for the first sustained robotic science campaign on Mars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_2

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/08/2026

On this day, 1983: STS-8 launches with Guion Bluford, the first African American in space, aboard Challenger's first night launch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-8

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/08/2026

SpaceX and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced on August 25 that the company will build its largest launch site yet on the Gulf coast, a 125,000-acre (50,600-hectare) complex on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish called Starbase Louisiana. The plan calls for five complexes of

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 30/08/2026

SpaceX's $100 billion spaceport opens after the moon landing it would serve Starbase Louisiana would give Starship 10 pads and its own propellant plant, which is close to what one Artemis landing actually requires. So why is the first launch from it scheduled for 2029?

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 25/08/2026

On this day, 2012: Voyager 1 crosses into interstellar space — the first human-made object to leave the heliosphere. voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 23/08/2026

On this day, 1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth as seen from the Moon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21/08/2026

President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on Thursday titled "The National Space Transportation Policy." Much of the coverage that followed described it as an order to return Americans to the moon by 2028.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21/08/2026

Did Trump just order a moon landing for 2028? Reported around the world as a directive to put Americans back on the lunar surface within two years, the memorandum he signed on Thursday never mentions 2028, and sets no landing date at all. So what did Trump actually sign, and is

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 21/08/2026

On this day, 1965: Gemini 5 launches on the first week-long American spaceflight, proving crews could endure a trip to the Moon and back. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_5

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 20/08/2026

On this day, 1977: Voyager 2 launches. Forty-nine years later it is still transmitting, from beyond the edge of the heliosphere. voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 19/08/2026

On this day, 1960: Sputnik 5 carries the dogs Belka and Strelka to orbit — the first living creatures recovered safely from space. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korabl-Sputni…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 17/08/2026

On this day, 1970: Venera 7 launches. In December it becomes the first spacecraft to land on another planet and transmit from the surface of Venus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_7

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 12/08/2026

On August 4, Northrop Grumman announced three new missions to the lunar surface. Lunar Infrastructure Demo, or LID, will fly power, thermal, communications and hosted-payload hardware to the moon's south pole to prove out systems that can survive the two-week lunar night.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 12/08/2026

The 'ready-to-fly' hardware behind NASA's new Moon Base missions comes from a module that never flew Three new lunar demo missions inherit technology from a $1.9 billion space station module that NASA's own review board gave zero percent odds of finishing on schedule, before the

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 12/08/2026

On this day, 2018: Parker Solar Probe launches, on its way to fly through the Sun's corona and become the fastest spacecraft ever built. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 11/08/2026

On this day, 1962: Vostok 3 launches with Andriyan Nikolayev. A day later Vostok 4 follows — the first time two crewed spacecraft fly in orbit at once. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_3

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 10/08/2026

On this day, 1990: Magellan arrives at Venus and begins mapping 98 percent of the planet's surface with radar. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spa…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 09/08/2026

On this day, 1976: Luna 24 launches — the Soviet Union's last Moon mission, and the last robotic lunar sample return for 44 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_24

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 07/08/2026

On this day, 1959: Explorer 6 launches and returns the first photograph of Earth taken from orbit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_6

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 06/08/2026

On this day, 2012: Curiosity lands in Gale Crater after the 'seven minutes of terror' sky-crane descent — the largest rover ever sent to Mars at the time. mars.nasa.gov/msl/home

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 05/08/2026

On SpaceX's first earnings call since going public, on August 4, Elon Musk said the company intends to fly Starship again before the month is out, carry its first operational Starlink V3 satellites to orbit, and try to catch the returning upper stage with the launch tower. All th

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 05/08/2026

Is NASA really losing the moon race to China? SpaceX says Starship flies again this month. Government auditors say the moon lander is more than a year late. Both arguments landed within two weeks of each other, so we lined the two countries' own dates up side by side.

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 05/08/2026

On this day, 2011: Juno launches toward Jupiter. Five years later it enters polar orbit around the largest planet in the solar system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecr…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 04/08/2026

On this day, 2007: Phoenix launches toward the Martian arctic, where it will confirm water ice just below the surface. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(spac…

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Artemis Tracker @artemistracker.app · 03/08/2026

On this day, 2004: MESSENGER launches on a seven-year journey to become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESSENGER

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