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Topic: Artemis

Stellar crew of NASA’s Artemis moon voyage named & a possible ‘Himalayan’ error in glacier watch

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

NASA to announce astronauts chosen for Artemis II lunar flyby mission

Artemis II is set for launch as early as next year in what would be the first crewed voyage around the moon since the end of the Apollo era more than 50 years ago.

NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $112 million contract to put lander on moon’s far side in ’26

The contract is part of Artemis program's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative— to deploy privately built lunar landers to study the moon's surface before people land there in future.

How this Greek feminist goddess inspired NASA to name its moon mission after her

Zeus’ daughter and Apollo’s sister, Artemis was a major deity in ancient Greece—the strong, courageous goddess of wilderness and hunting.

‘Proud moment’ — IITian scouted landing sites on moon for NASA’s Artemis 3 using Chandrayaan-1 data

IIT-Roorkee scholar Prateek Tripathi was selected for NASA's summer internship. His expertise came in handy in researching Shackleton, a large crater on moon's south pole.

Why can’t a rocket just be ‘thrown off’ Earth’s surface? Launch windows are important

A launch window is like waiting for the stars to align.

Mission Moon 2.0 — NASA’s Artemis 1 is set for launch on most powerful rocket ever built

Artemis 1 to be first in series of complex missions that aim to establish human presence on moon. It will loop around the moon, drop off some satellites, and return to earth.

On Camera

How ThePrint’s foreign affairs team makes sense of the world for Indian readers

In a time of non-stop global churn, what shapes ThePrint reporters’ stories, sources, and choices behind their global coverage?

Land, labour, licences: From UP to Tripura, states race ahead on Centre-led deregulation push

76% of Centre’s deregulation reforms implemented across states under Phase-I of compliance reduction exercise. Several states & UTs adopted flexible land use, 3rd party inspections, labour reforms.

During Op Sindoor, hackers targeted NSE website 40 crore times in 10 minutes, Exchange CEO says

NSE CEO Ashish Kumar Chauhan was speaking at Off The Cuff event hosted by ThePrint's Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta. He said that NSE, on average, sees 20 crore cyberattacks each day.

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.