Human Research Program - United States

Dressed in a white space suit—with hands gloved, feet booted and head in a helmet with a clear visor—Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover walks on a wide green treadmill. His suit is harnessed to a black machine that is taking the weight off Glover such that, while in the suit, he experiences forces equivalent to lunar gravity. Two people wearing casual clothes and blue hard hats stand in the background, waiting to support Glover and the experiment, should the need arise. Behind Glover are crisscrossing blue iron beams that stretch to a high ceiling in this industrial building at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

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NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth

June 6, 2026

Since NASA’s Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their…

A view of NASA’s Orion spacecraft aboard the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on April 1 during the launch of the Artemis II test flight.

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NASA Selects Next Class of Space Health Postdoctoral Fellows

May 18, 2026

The NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) has selected two early‑career scientists for its next class…