Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...
The astronauts of Artemis-2 are getting used to normal gravity after spending nine days in weightlessness. The yet-to-be name ...
The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...
When the Orion space capsule lands, four Navy divers will jump into the water, swim to the capsule, and open the hatch.
The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern ...
Artemis II live updates: Astronauts back safely on Earth after dangerous reentry goes smoothly - The crew of Integrity waved ...
Fifty-six years ago, after a tense race to save the Apollo 13 crew, the astronauts finally splashed down safely. Here’s what ...
They were flying a spacecraft that had never carried crew before and entering the atmosphere on a trajectory that had never ...
When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.
In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon ...
When to see NASA’s Artemis astronauts splashdown after their 10-day moon mission, but not before their Orion spacecraft heats to 5,000°F during a 16-minute blackout.
Reid Wiseman, the Artemis II commander, is not Jewish. But during the flyby, a tribute was made to his late wife. Jeremy ...