NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the Moon with a splashdown off San Diego as early as February.

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Artemis II mission will launch Canadian astronaut Colonel Jeremy Hansen and 3 American crewmates around the moon and back by next April ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a ...

Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.

The crew’s flight will take them on a path arcing about 5,000 miles past the moon before returning to Earth for a planned splashdown ... produces 8.8 million pounds of maximum thrust, 15% more thrust ...

The first mission of the program, Artemis I, lifted off on November 16, 2022. The uncrewed flight to test the equipment was, ...

We have to book ground-station passes, which costs money. Sometimes we even have to switch off the acquisition of scientific data. We have to have an expert team available round the clock.” So who or ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

NASA’S top official has revealed plans to create a “village” on the Moon. It’s part of Nasa’s ongoing Artemis mission to put ...