Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines ...

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...

The splashdown will conclude the crew's 685,000 mile flight that began 10 days ago and marked the first manned flight to the ...

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon ...

Reid Wiseman, the Artemis II commander, is not Jewish. But during the flyby, a tribute was made to his late wife. Jeremy ...

One of the most poignant moments of the mission was a tribute to Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020. On ...

Four astronauts April 6 became the first to enter the moon’s gravitational influence since a Topekan was among astronauts who ...

The Artemis II crew are tracking their time away in high style with analog-digital wristwatches designed specifically for ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

The last time human beings left the neighborhood of Earth, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the Vietnam War was still grinding on, and a gallon of gasoline cost ...

People all over the world watched liftoff and continue to track the Orion spacecraft Integrity as it travels back to Earth.