mission

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For Glover, the "greatest gift" of the mission was seeing the lunar eclipse from beyond the far side of the moon.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Rick Henfling, flight director for the Artemis II mission, stressed Tuesday that "the toilet remains operational. The challenge that we're working through is evacuating the wastewater tank," he said.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

“It’s a persistent mission and it’s difficult to do,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

In thrall to her mission, June rents a dusty, disheveled storage room in town.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Sixteen days into the mission, while the sub was 300 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, a pipe carrying cool water to one of the reactors burst.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin