Who better to put Artemis II into context than Woody Spring? He's Rhode Island's only astronaut, having spent a week on the space shuttle in 1985, including 12 hours of space walks. Spring is now 81, ...

DEBARY AVENUE, ALSO WESTBOUND, LOOKING AT ABOUT NINE MINUTES. SUCCESSFUL TOY CREWS FEELING PRETTY GOOD UP HERE ON OUR WAY TO THE MOON. ANOTHER HISTORIC LANDMARK FOR THE ARTEMIS TWO CREW LAST NIGHT.

"Apollo happened before I was born, and the idea that we will see humans on the moon within our lifetimes, with decades of advances in science and technology behind them, is remarkable." When you ...

Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo and goddess of the moon, embodies NASA's ambitious effort to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years. When you purchase through ...

More than 50 years after the final Apollo mission, NASA today launched Artemis II, the first crewed mission to travel around the moon, as the full pink moon rose. Lifting off from Kennedy Space Center ...

The Artemis II crew launched into the history books Wednesday, blasting off aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft on a mission around the moon — the first crewed journey beyond low-Earth orbit in more than ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

The heat shield on the Artemis I Orion spacecraft unexpectedly cracked and charred during reentry. An investigation found that a "skip reentry" maneuver caused heat and pressure to build up, damaging ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis II astronauts are on their way home, leaving the moon in the rearview mirror after becoming the first humans in more ...

As launch time approaches for NASA's first moonshot in more than half a century, anticipation is building for the Artemis II mission, which will send a crew of four astronauts on a nine-and-a-half-day ...

More than half a century after NASA’s final Apollo mission, astronauts prepared Wednesday to return to the moon, but this time, they will not land. Instead, four crew members aboard Artemis II will ...

A Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft will transport three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day journey around the Moon and back, paving the way for a future mission where ...