In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around the moon.

The dark side of the moon is no longer half the face of a friend. Using current gravity and topography data sets, the side of the body that never faces the Earth has the look of a palimpsest: the scars of impacts are painted over by the strains of the ...

Landing on the Moon demands extreme accuracy, flawless calculations, and cutting-edge technology operating at its limits. Explore the treacherous lunar terrain, the lack of atmosphere, and how Apollo missions overcame near-impossible challenges,

NASA had a contingency plan in case Apollo astronauts were stranded near the Moon, but it was far stranger and riskier than you might expect.

Just before my final, 2001 shuttle mission to help build the International Space Station, I asked the NASA chief of human spaceflight when he thought we’d return to the moon. "Oh, probably not until 2010," he answered. I was floored — how could it ...

The mobile launcher containing the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building after a rollback that lasted over ten hours at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on February 25, 2026.

An artist’s conception shows the integrated design for the Blue Moon Mark 2 lander. (Blue Origin Illustration) NASA is reworking its Artemis moon program to add a test mission for commercial lunar landers in low Earth orbit next year, with a crewed lunar ...