NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years, is scheduled to launch in February and will send four astronauts on a flyby around the moon.

Artemis II will send astronauts around the moon in February-April 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in 50+ years and paving the way for future crewed lunar landings. Are you ready for NASA’s most significant human spaceflight in a generation?

The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a towering new rocket that is now assembled and undergoing final checks in Florida. The mission, known as Artemis II, will test the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four astronauts are about to fly around the moon, and you can join them – kind of. The mission is in the final stages of preparation after NASA rolled out the gigantic Space Launch ...

The mission has faced delays due to ongoing repairs on the Space Launch System rocket. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed flight of the Orion capsule, testing systems for future moon landings. NASA also recently announced an overhaul of the Artemis ...

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti-radiation countermeasures. Shown here is the Orion ...

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question is, why do we have astronauts at all? NASA's Artemis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four astronauts are about to fly around the moon, and you can join them – kind of. The mission is in the final stages of preparation after NASA rolled out the gigantic Space Launch ...