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The four astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission will be the first humans to travel to the Moon in over 50 years, with subsequent missions expected to land on the surface

World

To the Moon and back: NASA’s Artemis II crew rehearses splashdown

Their mission around the Moon is not expected until September 2025 at the earliest.

AFPFebruary 29, 2024

A handout from Intuitive Machines on February 27, 2024, shows its Odysseus probe just above the lunar surface, before landing

World

US lunar lander still operating despite previous battery warning

The lunar lander that touched down on the Moon last week is still working via solar power, the private company behind the historic mission...

AFPFebruary 28, 2024

Intuitive Machines said the images captured during the Odysseus lander's descent represent the 'closest observations of any spaceflight mission to the south pole region of the Moon'

Tech & Science

US Moon lander’s battery likely has hours left: company

An American lunar lander that tipped over during its historic touchdown last week likely only has hours left until its battery runs out.

AFPFebruary 27, 2024

Macron listened to farmers' complaints about prices, red tape and state aid

World

Macron opens agricultural show to whistles from protesters

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the annual agricultural fair Saturday as angry farmers blew whistles and shouted insults. Riot police kept the protesters at...

AFPFebruary 24, 2024

Students from the University of Nebraska work on a small surgical robot called spaceMIRA, before its test on the ISS

World

Space surgery: Doctors on ground operate robot on ISS for first time

Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit — albeit...

AFPFebruary 14, 2024

Cars weighing more than 1.6 tonnes would be slapped with swingeing parking charges if the vote passes

Business

Parisians vote in anti-SUV parking and pollution referendum

Polling stations opened in Paris on Sunday for a referendum on tripling parking costs for hefty SUV-style cars.

AFPFebruary 4, 2024

Business

Tens of thousands sign up for French electric car leasing scheme

The French government has been flooded with applications from low-income households to lease a subsidised electric car from 100 euros ($109) a month, Environment...

AFPJanuary 19, 2024

Ukraine's forces are switching from Soviet guns to modern Western ones

World

Kyiv warns ammunition low as allies launch ‘artillery coalition’

Ukraine’s defence minister warned Thursday that the country faced a “very real and pressing” ammunition shortage in its grinding near-two-year battle against Russia, as...

AFPJanuary 18, 2024