For the first time since 1972, NASA is preparing to send humans toward the Moon. The Artemis II mission is intended not to land, but to test the spacecraft, systems and human spaceflight capabilities ...

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT, marking the start of a historic journey into deep space.

On July 21, 1969, astronaut Michael Collins aimed his Hasselblad film camera out of the spacecraft Columbia’s window and took ...

Editors' note, March 30, 2026: This story has been lightly updated in advance of the launch of Artemis 2, scheduled for the evening of Wednesday, April 1. One morning this past June, inside the ...

Here’s a fun fact that’ll make your brain do a little flip: the world’s largest space museum isn’t in Houston, Washington D.C ...

The Lockheed Martin Orion is the latest arrival of a human-rated spacecraft slated to take humans beyond the bounds of Low Earth Orbit and close to the surface of another heavenly body. But for all ...

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The lithium hydroxide canister was ...