NASA recently revised its mission plans for Artemis III and IV, to provide a stepping stone mission before undertaking the ...
In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon ...
On its way to and from visiting the Moon, the 33 engines of the ESA’s European Service Module are keeping Orion on track, as ...
Monday is day 6 of the Artemis II mission in space, where the crew, according to NASA, is at its farthest point from Earth — ...
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...
What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
On 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the ...
The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...
Apollo 17 in December 1972 was NASA’s final Project Apollo manned lunar mission. On April 1, 2026, following lengthy delays, ...
U.S. forces have struck more than 1,700 targets across Iran in the first 72 hours of Operation Epic Fury, according to a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) fact sheet — a sweeping military campaign aimed ...
On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...