NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence. | CBS News

’Twas the night before launch day…✨🚀 NASA’s Artemis II mission, targeted for early 2026, will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis campaign and the first time humans journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo. The mission will send four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth. Artemis II will rigorously test Orion’s life-support, propulsion, navigation, and communications systems i