As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, NASA said the Artemis II mission has carried a collection of historic mementos. Among them was a flag originally designated

For Toledo native Thomas Hughes, the splashdown brought back memories of his own role in space history. Hughes helped recover Apollo 16 as a young Navy sailor 54 years ago this month.

At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and images—with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon now in the books,

The photos, taken decades apart in 1968 and 2026, show Earth as it would be seen if you were standing on the moon. Take a look.

(FOX 5/KUSI) — For the first time in more than 50 years, a manned rocket blasted off from Earth on a historic mission around the moon. The Artemis II launched from Florida on Wednesday, sending a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day mission around the ...

Artemis II generates data volumes that old systems cannot handle efficiently Laser communications transmit far more data than traditional radio systems Infrared light enables high-speed space communication across vast distances The sheer volume of data generated during modern lunar missions has rendered old radio systems nearly obsolete.

The cellphone you carry in your pocket has more computational power than the cutting-edge computer on the old lunar lander.

Nearly 60 years ago, three Americans made history as the first humans to ever break free of Earth's orbit on their way toward the moon. And when they passed behind the moon to the side Earth never sees, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell (who ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene F. Kranz, worked tirelessly with astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise to ensure their safe return,

On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 spacecraft, forcing astronauts to abandon their moon landing and fight for survival.