If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s Artemis I mission is well behind us, with the Orion space capsule showcasing ...

To the moon and back: Astronauts get 1st look at Artemis II craft ahead of lunar mission The first lunar mission in a half-century, four NASA astronauts are set to take a 10-day, 600,000-mile trip ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, sounding like an excited new parent, declared that the agency's Artemis mission is ready to take its first physical steps to return to the moon and sometime later ...

Many of the Artemis II mission details are already known. The hardware that will take the astronauts to the Moon comprises the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion capsule, which will ...

Take a trip around the moon and back with the NASA Artemis 1 mission in this time-lapse of highlights from the 25 day mission ...

Artemis I occurred last year, when NASA launched the uncrewed Orion on a test mission to space in November, sending the ship around the Moon and back on a 1.4-million-mile journey that lasted 25 ...

The Orion spacecraft will travel 40,000 miles beyond the moon during Artemis I with the goal of testing NASA's deep-space exploration systems, making sure the agency is ready to send astronauts to ...

President Donald Trump wants to phase out NASA's Space Launch System — but the agency seems to have other plans. As Ars ...

Thanks to Artemis I, Nov. 16 was a date that went down in history. NASA/Joel Kowsky. For the next several weeks, the Hershey Kiss-shaped spacecraft, Orion, flew through the vastness of space.

Read more: Artemis 2 astronauts meet President Biden to talk America's next trip to the moon that time when 3 moon astronauts once flew, supersonic-style, by a NASA lunar rocket on the pad ...

The road map still calls for Artemis III to fly one year later no earlier than September 2026, a flight that is designed to send Orion back to the moon where it will rendezvous with a lunar lander ...