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Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover moved to emeritus advisory roles at NASA to help teams prepare Artemis III for 2027. Their Orion experience will now reach that Earth-orbit docking test through volunteer mentoring.
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A Science Advances paper says five ordinary human-associated microbes could stay alive in shadowed south-pole terrain. The expensive consequence is the baseline contamination survey it implies.
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NASA and ESA will coordinate blood draws from Crew-13 astronauts in a joint clotting study, one of six human studies on the mission. The study asks why weightlessness disturbs venous blood flow in some astronauts but not others, and answering that depends on how many crew take part.
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Trump signed the order at Johnson Space Center on Aug. 28, and what it actually creates is a study group with four months to work out who a NASA-run academy's graduates would serve and who would pay for them.
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The order signed at Johnson Space Center stands up a commission under NASA's administrator. The plan it owes the president by late December is where training vendors learn whether appropriations follow the rhetoric.
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The Artemis II crew flew 252,756 miles from Earth, farther than anyone before them. The medals presented in Houston close the mission out institutionally, while its successor is scheduled to stay in low Earth orbit.
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Space Force growth and lunar ambition are the stated rationale, and NASA's own leadership drew the design work on a four-month clock. The announcement puts no size on the workforce gap the school would close.
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