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

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.

Four astronauts in training to fly around the moon early next year strapped into their Orion spacecraft this weekend for a ...

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.

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

Artemis II will mark humanity's first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The approximately 10-day ...

Over the weekend, NASA conducted a dress rehearsal for its scheduled February launch date of its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon.

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

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, ...

Artemis II will send astronauts around the moon in February-April 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in 53 years ...

The Orion stack sits on top of a piece called "Spacecraft Adapter" (SA). Among other things, it encapsulates the [European] Service Module's ([E]SM's) various nozzles, and provides them with standoff ...