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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fact check: New Artemis I spacecraft needed longer travel time to conduct routine testing. Eleanor McCrary. ... Humans last walked on the moon as part of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

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.

NASA’s 2024 return to the moon will be a milestone in space exploration. The Artemis II mission will take humankind further than we’ve gone before.

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 Artemis 1 mission in late 2022 successfully tested out most of the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket systems during a trip around the moon. Artemis 2 will take that a step ...

Artemis II, a trip around the moon, will now occur no earlier than September 2025 while a moon landing, Artemis III, will move to 2026. By Kenneth Chang For NASA and its astronauts, the moon is no ...