HUTCHINSON — Stare into the open hatch of Odyssey, the scarred Apollo 13 command module in which three American astronauts made their improbable return to Earth from a seemingly jinxed lunar mission, ...

The takeaway: The code that guided Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface has been released in digital form for public access. Nearly six decades after the Apollo 11 mission, the original ...

Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

Every crewed mission to the moon starts with fire and ends with water. Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines ...

What time is splashdown for Artemis II? After an iconic 10-day mission that took the crew of four astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972, NASA’s Artemis II mission will come to an ...

NASA's Artemis II mission is in its final stretch, with the Orion capsule carrying four astronauts back toward Earth following a historic lunar flyby. The four-person crew—Commander Reid Wiseman, ...

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Artemis II launched April 1, 2026, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the first crewed moon mission in 54 years. What is Artemis II? 4 astronauts will journey around the moon but ...

Given its $24 billion price tag and two decades in development, one would think that the Artemis II mission’s Orion spaceship would be flawless. Alas, that’s not how things work in the space program.

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