Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never ...
The crew just surpassed the record previously set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 for the farthest distance ever traveled from our home planet.
During a routine ground test in January 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were sealed inside their Apollo command module when a sudden fire erupted inside the oxygen-filled ...
Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...
The moonwalkers were not merely astronauts; they were pioneers of a new planetary frontier. In the coming days humans are set to return to the moon. Initially on a flyby NASA mission named Artemis-2, ...
More than half a century after Apollo 13’s crippled spacecraft set an unplanned distance record in a desperate loop around the Moon, Artemis II is chasing that same frontier on purpose. NASA’s first ...
Here's what to know about Artemis II, the first time NASA sent humans to the moon and why some people (ahem, Kim Kardashian) ...
For the first time since 1972, NASA is preparing to send humans toward the Moon. The Artemis II mission is intended not to land, but to test the spacecraft, systems and human spaceflight capabilities ...
Just like the Apollo missions, Artemis II will be run from a mission control monitoring every instrument from here on Earth. How has it changed since the days of the space race? The rocket scientists ...
Leading the intrepid explorers in the Artemis 2 mission is U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, mission commander. Jennifer Levasseur Soon, humans will once again travel beyond Earth ...