07/04/2026 15:14
While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA’s lunar crew members have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public.

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07/04/2026 14:37
The White House and NASA released imagery captured by the cameras of the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission.

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07/04/2026 05:05
The NASA lunar flyby took the four crew members farther from Earth than any humans. They witnessed a solar eclipse and received praise in a call from President Trump.

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07/04/2026 04:26
The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.

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06/04/2026 22:55
Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side.

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06/04/2026 21:55
The astronauts will head into a communications blackout at 6:44 p.m. Eastern time as they become the first people to travel around the moon since 1972.

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06/04/2026 21:42
Three Americans and one Canadian traveling on NASA’s Orion spacecraft surpassed a milestone set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.

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06/04/2026 20:52
The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston.

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06/04/2026 20:00
As Artemis II flies around the far side of the moon, our graphics editor Marco Hernandez describes what the astronauts are looking for.

NYT
02/04/2026 01:55
The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

Wired
31/03/2026 21:48
Here’s everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.

Wired
27/03/2026 14:50
The first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years is coming up. Here’s how to see it at sites in and around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NYT
24/03/2026 17:22
The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in a lunar orbit.

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