2026.06.10 | Artemis III: Apollo 9 Redux

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 10 June 2026: Artemis III mission profile and crew unveiled: NASA’s announcement at the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, of the Artemis III mission profile and crew During Artemis III, the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will launch the Orion spacecraft and its crew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to low Earth orbit. After Orion's systems are checked out, the spacecraft will, for the first time, demonstrate rendezvous and docking capabilities with test versions from one, or both, American commercial human landing systems in development by Blue Origin and SpaceX. Artemis III crew assignments are as follows: * NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Commander * ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, Pilot * NASA astronaut Andre Douglas, Mission Specialist * NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Mission Specialist. The speakers at the announcement include: Jared Isaacman (NASA Administrator), Jeremy Parsons (Acting Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator, Artemis Program Manager), John Couluris (Senior Vice President, Lunar Permanence, Blue Origin), Jessica Jemsen (Integration Vice President, Customer Operations, SpaceX), Nicola Fox (Associate Administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA) and Joseph Aschbacher (Director General, ESA). (Inserts courtesy JSC, ESA)

Australian Space Research Conference: * Space debris; IADC Committee; Australia tracking debris; and impacts with Gillian Altham, Civil Space Monitoring Team, Australian Space Agency, Adelaide. * Radiation resilience in Trichoplax adhaerens (P53 homologue tumour depressor gene) with Jennifer Tinker, Honours Student at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora.