Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo. A half-century after Apollo, the Artemis missions aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

The success of the recent Artemis moon mission has caused many Americans to feel uplifted and inspired. Uplifted because we could all imagine leaving Earth and its countless botherations — especially ...

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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 ...

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The Orion spacecraft, carrying NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy ...

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