NASA’s Future Plans Just Changed Everything | This Week In Spaceflight

🚀 NASA is just days away from launching Artemis II — humanity’s first crewed mission around the Moon in over 50 years. But that’s only the beginning. In this episode of This Week in Spaceflight, we break down NASA’s major “Ignition” event, where the agency revealed its roadmap for the future — including a permanent Moon base, nuclear-powered spacecraft, and a new approach to science and commercial space stations. 🌕 In this episode: Artemis II launch preparations and mission timeline NASA’s new plan for Artemis III, IV, and V The Moon Base program and how it will be built Nuclear fission in space (and a mission to Mars 👀) The future of the ISS and commercial space stations New science missions and the Roman Space Telescope Satellite constellation news (SES, Amazon Kuiper) SpaceX’s massive “Terafab” AI satellite vision This week’s launches and next week’s schedule ⚡ Become a member of NASASpaceflight's channel for exclusive discord access, fast turnaround clips, and other exclusive benefits. Your support helps us continue our 24/7 coverage. Click JOIN above to get started.⚡ 🤵 Hosted by Elysia Segal. 🖋️ Written by Martijn Luinstra & Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera. 🎥 Footage from: Jerry Pike, Space Coast Live, NASA, NASA Goddard, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Firefly Aerospace, Toyota, NASA JPL, NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), NASA/ESA/STScI/Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)/Michael Wong (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Vast, Axiom Space, Starlab, Blue Origin, K2 Space, Amazon, Roscosmos, CCTV, Rocket Lab, Isar Aerospace/NSF. ✂️ Edited by Ryan Caton. 💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed). 0 🔍 If you are interested in using footage from this video, please review our content use policy: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content-use-policy/ #SpaceNews #Artemis #Starship #NASA #Moon #LunarReturn #SLS #Artemis #NASA #Spaceflight #Moon #ArtemisII #SpaceNews #RocketLaunch #SLS #SpaceExploration #Mars LDAPAABJRG2UMCU3