The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...

On March 6, MIT launched its first lunar landing mission since the Apollo era, sending three payloads—the AstroAnt, the RESOURCE 3D camera, and the HUMANS nanowafer—to the moon's south polar region.

With shiny new next-generation spacecraft come the complex systems required to track their technologically advanced systems. When it comes to NASA's Orion spacecraft, that need is a whole extra room ...

The next-generation Orion spacecraft, which will take astronauts to the Moon for the first time in over 60 years, is so full of new tech that NASA reportedly needed a new control room just to manage ...

Dozens of engineers will monitor the Artemis II Orion spacecraft along its journey in 2026 while collecting data from the new room inside Houston's Mission Control Center. NASA's Artemis program is ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, which aims to send humans towards the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, has drawn unexpected attention from anime fans after a subtle reference to Sailor Moon was ...

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew. This station is the nucleus of the ...