Crew members have left their Orion capsule after splashing down into the Pacific, ending Artemis II’s historic 10-day mission ...

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: “Why has it taken so long to return to the Moon?” After all, NASA had the ...

A boom across the Pacific near San Diego late Friday afternoon signaled the Orion capsule’s return to Earth’s atmosphere. The ...

On 12 April 1961, exactly 65 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first human spaceflight in history, ushering ...

Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...

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

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 ...

When to see NASA’s Artemis astronauts splashdown after their 10-day moon mission, but not before their Orion spacecraft heats to 5,000°F during a 16-minute blackout.

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 ...

Both Apollo 8 and Artemis II missions included public references to religion, but astronauts aboard the Artemis’ Orion ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, ...