Daily Mail News – Science & Tech
By RACHEL BOWMAN, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and CHRIS MELORE and STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR and KATRINA SCHOLLENBERGER, US HEAD OF LIVE NEWS
Updated: 12:50 EDT, 2 April 2026
Astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II rocket sparked alarm Wednesday evening after suddenly losing contact with mission control as their spacecraft heads towards the moon.
‘About 51 minutes into the flight, during a planned handover between satellites, the Orion spacecraft underwent a communications issue, leading to a temporary partial loss,’ NASA chief Jared Isaacman said at a press briefing following the launch. ‘The uplink from Cap Com to the crew was being heard by the crew, but we can’t hear the responses for a brief period of time,’ he added.
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