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 ...

NASA's Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon and back this April. Four astronauts will board the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the test flight, spending 10 days off-Earth.

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Artist’s concept of Phase 3 of NASA’s Moon ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—For the first time in more than half a century, people around the world can look to the sky and know somewhere up there a crew of astronauts is on its way to the Moon. They are ...

Could NASA be making a return trip the moon? It has been 54 years since NASA last sent a human to the moon — the Apollo 17 mission landed on the lunar surface on Dec. 19, 1972 — but now NASA, to ...