NASA confirmed on March 12 that preparations for the crewed Artemis II mission remain on track for a launch targeted in April. If successful, the mission will carry four astronauts on a lunar flyby and mark the first crewed voyage beyond low-Earth orbit since the final missions of the Apollo program in the early 1970s.

NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, is scheduled to launch in February and will send four astronauts on a flyby around the moon.

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side of ...

Nasa's Artemis II mission has taken a giant step forward with the final major hardware component as the Orion spacecraft, named "Integrity" has been fully installed atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Acting Nasa Administrator Sean Duffy proudly ...

Nearly 70 years after man first landed on the Moon, man will now land on Mars. Goals outlined in NASA’s proposed timeline forecast a manned mission to the red planet in the 2030s and the Dec. 4, 2014 launch of the Orion spacecraft will play a crucial role.