Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA is opting for a new flight trajectory for the next Artemis mission to reduce risks to astronauts as the agency gears up to return to the lunar surface in 2027. To address the concern, managers for next year's Artemis II mission have changed the Orion crew capsule's reentry profile. The...
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