For 10 days in April, NASA’s Artemis II crew traveled around the far side of the Moon and back, marking one of the most ...
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Astronauts on Artemis II witness Earth vanishing beyond the lunar horizon in a view not seen since Apollo era
A rare image of Earth slipping behind the Moon has been captured by the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission. Taken during a flyby of the lunar far side. The image shows a crescent Earth descending below ...
It’s a view that only a handful of humans have ever witnessed: a distant Earth disappearing behind a huge moon. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded the Artemis II mission around the moon, ...
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Artemis 2 moon astronauts snap shot of swirling stars | Space photo of the day for May 18, 2026
What a view from the Orion capsule.
On Thursday, Artemis 2 astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen gave their first press conference since splashing down. Here, Hansen holds Rise, the crew’s mascot and ...
A handout image taken by the Artemis II crew captures a faint view of a crescent Earth above the horizon on the Moon’s far side, photographed by the NASA Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft ...
The crew traveled aboard the Orion capsule (that they dubbed “Integrity”), which reentered Earth’s atmosphere before deploying parachutes and landing in a designated recovery zone, where teams quickly ...
Brother of NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman reacts to emotional moment of moon crater being named after astronaut’s late wife. • En route home: The astronauts have now begun their return trip home after ...
NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in shallow laps around Earth in the decades since ...
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Will SpaceX's Starship or Blue Origin's Blue Moon be ready for an Artemis moon landing in 2028?
After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline challenges.
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