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. [...] ...

Sometimes all it takes is a caring mentor to spark a passion that will shape the rest of a young person’s life.According to ...

U.S. and allied governments and contractors gamed out implications of a nuclear blast intended to take out satellites.

The small forward command post lets commanders “be in contact with the divisions, to be as close as possible to the ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

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Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines ...

In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a ...

The longtime Lake Forest resident and restaurant operator recorded a message before his death last year for the astronauts, ...

Monday is day 6 of the Artemis II mission in space, where the crew, according to NASA, is at its farthest point from Earth — ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before ...