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As Artemis 2 pushed farther from Earth than any humans before, the crew paused to honor a member of their astronaut family by naming features on the moon's surface.

The Artemis II astronauts have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history, surpassing the Apollo 13 mark as Orion looped around the far side of the moon.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is preparing for a seven-hour moon flyby on April 6, marking the first close human encounter with the moon in more than 50 years.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew entered the moon’s sphere of influence on April 6, a milestone that marks humanity’s return to lunar space more than five decades after the Apollo era.

As Artemis 2 approaches its lunar flyby, the crew is reporting unexpected surface detail, conducting suit checks, and preparing for observations on the moon’s far side.

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has turned an unglamorous subsystem into a public talking point, underscoring how human spaceflight depends on mundane hardware working flawlessly far from Earth.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is underway, sending four astronauts around the Moon and back on an approximately 10-day test flight designed to validate Orion’s performance in deep space.

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts reported a burning smell near Orion's hygiene bay after the mission passed the halfway point to the moon, but Mission Control said it was not overly concerned and continued evaluating the odor

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is heading toward the moon, marking humanity’s first crewed journey to lunar space since Apollo 17 in December 1972 and highlighting how funding and political urgency shaped the long pause.

As human lunar missions move beyond short visits, the harder problem is shifting from reaching the Moon to living and working there for weeks, months, and eventually years.

NASA says Orion has completed the burn that sent Artemis II out of Earth orbit, putting four astronauts on the first crewed lunar flyby mission since Apollo.

NASA’s Artemis 2 mission completed its critical translunar injection burn, sending Orion and its crew out of Earth orbit and toward the moon.

NASA’s Artemis II mission has launched with four astronauts aboard Orion, beginning the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades and a major test flight for future moon return plans.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is safely in Earth orbit after launch, but the mission’s defining test on April 2 is the translunar injection burn that will send Orion toward the moon.

NASA’s Artemis II mission has launched four astronauts on a lunar flyby, marking the first crewed journey around the moon in more than 50 years.

NASA’s Artemis II mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on April 1, starting a roughly 10-day crewed test flight around the Moon and marking the first astronaut voyage beyond low Earth orbit in more than 50 years.

NASA’s Artemis 2 launched on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on a free-return mission around the moon and marking humanity’s first trip beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years.

NASA is preparing to launch Artemis 2 on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts around the Moon on the agency’s first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit in more than five decades.

NASA is preparing to launch four astronauts on the 10-day Artemis 2 lunar mission on April 1, with agency officials stressing that the schedule is serious despite the date.

A new experiment using a tiny plastic obstacle course suggests sperm may struggle to navigate during sex in weightlessness, adding another complication to long-term life beyond Earth.