The Artemis II mission will return humans to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in more than half a century.

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

NASA and Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft, are now exploring the possibility of launching Orion on rockets other than the Space Launch System (SLS). This consideration ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

NASA’s Artemis II crew boarded the Orion spacecraft on December 20, 2025, for a countdown demonstration test, rehearsing launch-day procedures at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building.

American space agency NASA conducted a full rehearsal of the launch day procedures for the Artemis II mission scheduled to ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years moved one step closer to liftoff recently with a full launch day ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

The most exciting story in space flight this decade has been NASA's announcement of the Artemis program, which aims to land humans on the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The program has ...