The Artemis II mission has been bringing people to tears on a nearly daily basis since its launch. Here are 9 reasons it's so ...

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative with the goals of going back to the moon "to ...

When the crew of the Artemis II mission to the moon splash lands off the coast Friday, it won’t be San Diego’s first moment in the NASA spotlight. It won’t even be the first time a spacecraft has ...

In December 2017, the first Trump administration signed a directive refocusing the space program on sending American ...

The tendrils of Christina Koch’s flyaway hair swirled about in the gravityless cockpit of the Orion spacecraft, seeming to ...

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 know ...

The International Space Hall of Fame is inducting five new nominees into the Alamogordo facility. The nominees were chosen ...

Jim Newman, a former NASA astronaut and current professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, discusses the Artemis II crew, ...

Artemis II, NASA’s most important crewed mission in a generation, sets the stage for a revived space race against China. It ...

The four NASA Artemis II astronauts will swing around the far side of the moon, venturing deeper into space than any humans ...

The Artemis II crew pulled the trigger and are on their way to the moon, the first people in generations to break free of low ...

The four person crew won't actually be landing on it, but instead going on a day 10 journey around it, as a test flight.