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. [...] ...

Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo. A half-century after Apollo, the Artemis missions aim to bring astronauts back to the Moon and establish ...

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

The last time human beings left the neighborhood of Earth, Richard Nixon was in the White House, the Vietnam War was still grinding on, and a gallon of gasoline cost ...

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 ...

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 ...