The seven-hour flyby was the highlight of NASA’s first return to the moon since the Apollo era with three Americans and one Canadian — a step toward landing boot prints near t

FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live updates from the NASA Artemis II crew's journey around the far side of the moon inside their Orion spacecraft Integrity.

The Artemis II crewed lunar mission lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 1. (Jim Watson/AFP/) I was totally obsessed with space as a kid. I read every book I could get my hands on about the Russian space program,

The ​milestone is a climactic point in the nearly 10-day Artemis II mission, the first crewed test flight ​of NASA's Artemis program. The ⁠multibillion-dollar series of miss

As of 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday, April 6, the Artemis II crew is over 244,500 miles from Earth, hurtling through space at 1,161 mph towards the moon, according to NASA's Artemis II tracker. The crew has less than 20,

The four-person crew aboard Artemis II documented parts of the moon never before seen by the human eye ... Surpassing the Apollo 13 distance record of 248,000 miles from Earth.

Artemis II astronauts will watch Earth sink and rise behind the moon's curved edge today and ride through a slow solar eclipse unlike anything anyone has seen from home. From the windows of the Orion spacecraft,

Elon Musk shared exterior video footage Monday night on X of NASA's Artemis II spacecraft during its closest approach to the lunar surface, captioning the clip "NASA Artemis passing close to the