The four astronauts on the ship are returning back to Earth following a landmark 10‑day journey around the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II mission has sent four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The mission is the first in over 50 years to send humans to the vicinity of the moon. The crew includes the ...

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The Artemis II astronauts are returning to Earth after a historic lunar flyby. The four-person crew became the first humans in over 50 years to travel near the moon. During the mission, the astronauts ...

The four crew members reached a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them. They spent nearly seven hours observing the moon's far side and capturing images. Isaacman ended the event by ...

The crewmembers splashed down Friday after breaking a space-faring record and viewing lunar features never seen by human eyes ...

NASA officials were all smiles in their post-splashdown news conference Friday night from Houston, with exploration ground systems program manager Shawn Quinn describing Artemis II's successful return ...

For Earth Day 2026, NASA’s Artemis II crew released the first human-captured full-Earth images since the Apollo era, taken from over 100,000 miles away. The photographs, alongside global tributes from ...