When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

In the quiet expanse beyond our atmosphere, four astronauts—NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, joined by Canadian Space Agency's .

In a fitting parallel, Artemis II broke the deep-space distance record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The Orion capsule reached a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth before looping behind the moon ...

When the Orion spacecraft returned from its first lunar trip on the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022, it suffered major damage to the spacecraft’s heat shield coating. That raised ...

When to see NASA’s Artemis astronauts splashdown after their 10-day moon mission, but not before their Orion spacecraft heats to 5,000°F during a 16-minute blackout.

The Orion spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth Friday along the shores of San Diego, where NASA and Naval Recovery ...

Reid Wiseman, the Artemis II commander, is not Jewish. But during the flyby, a tribute was made to his late wife. Jeremy ...

One of the most poignant moments of the mission was a tribute to Wiseman’s late wife, Carroll, who died of cancer in 2020. On ...

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine previously claimed the reason is due to political restrictions, not technological fears ...

Four astronauts April 6 became the first to enter the moon’s gravitational influence since a Topekan was among astronauts who ...

The Artemis II crew are tracking their time away in high style with analog-digital wristwatches designed specifically for ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...