It will also help build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. The finished Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission was officially handed over to NASA for launch processing on ...

Artemis II is slated to launch from KSC no later than April 2026, taking NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around ...

Artemis II will put Orion through its final tests in deep space with a crew on board and will include learnings and significant enhancements gleaned from the Artemis I mission. To support the ...

I HAD A GOOD TIME. NASA is calling on creatives from around the world to design a new zero-gravity indicator mascot for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to the moon in decades ...

The Orion Artemis II spacecraft has been supplied to NASA for its upcoming manned mission around the Moon, to test systems and prepare for further space exploration. Lockheed Martin reported it has ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's ...

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon.

Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Orion space capsule, transferred possession of the Artemis II spacecraft Thursday to the agency’s Exploration Ground Systems team base at Kennedy Space ...

What's more, workers swapped the engines with the rocket vertical on its launch platform as NASA assembles the vehicle for the Artemis II mission, the first human flight on the Space Launch System.

But things are moving, and they are far more advanced than you may think. Artemis II is the mission that will validate the critical components of the Orion spacecraft, the vehicle that forms the ...