Nasa brought crashing down to earth as budget threat follows lunar success

Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the moon in more than half a century. Instead, last week began with some difficult questions in Congres...

By Richard Luscombe

NASA says it will put humans on the surface of the moon in 2028. How realistic is that?

The Artemis II lunar mission is over, and NASA is already looking ahead, planning to put astronauts on the surface of the moon by 2028. But there are a lot of hurdles that need to be cleared before that happens.