It could be less than nine months before humanity ventures back to the moon, even if only to fly around it. The people set to ...

NASA is preparing for its April 2026 Artemis II 10-day mission that will send a crew of four around the moon to prepare for ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin officials pose together during a handover ceremony for the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 1, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Cory S. Huston ...

Here’s how it works. The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis 2 astronaut mission was officially handed over to NASA for launch processing on May 1, 2025. (Image credit: Lockheed Martin) ...

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon.

That'll happen during a mission named Artemis III, at the moment set for departure in 2027. That's close enough in space engineering terms for the hardware meant to transport astronauts to the ...

The goal of Artemis II will be to test out the Orion capsule and all the other equipment, so that by 2026, Artemis III can put astronauts back on the moon. The program's overall ambitions go far ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission.

During the Artemis I mission that sent Orion beyond the Moon in late 2022, chunks of charred material cracked and chipped away from Orion's heat shield during reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission around the moon.