(blackdovfx/iStock/Getty Images) If you were to drift, suitless, through the vacuum of space, the brief moments before your ...
Like everyone else, the astronauts who spend months on the International Space Station need some down time. And as it turns ...
A remote camera captured NASA’s Artemis II rocket lifting off as birds take flight near the launch complex at sunset. The ...
It is part of the Artemis II mission, which saw humans go to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. Listeners have been sending us questions and in this episode of What in the World we put them ...
NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century came to a triumphant close Friday evening ...
NASA will stream video of the spacecraft’s return to Earth starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday. You can watch it on NASA’s YouTube ...
Researchers at the University of South Florida paid attention to the ground as the rest of the U.S. looked up during the ...
When astronauts return from deep space, the mission isn’t truly over until the spacecraft safely touches the ocean.
(THE CONVERSATION) The crew of NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission splashed back down to Earth on April 10, 2026, in their Orion spacecraft. While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft ...
The Artemis II crew slammed into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, creating a fireball half as hot as ...
Over the past eight days, the world has watched four intrepid explorers leave Earth, fly around the Moon, and make ...
Commander Reid Wiseman and the three astronauts on his Artemis II team have gone farther into space than anyone in history.