The 10-day Artemis II mission has already achieved groundbreaking results. However, the four-person crew of the Artemis II mission faces its most critical test on April 10, when the Orion spacecraft ...

The Artemis II capsule, carrying four astronauts, travelled through Earth’s atmosphere and safely landed in the Pacific Ocean on Friday. The return came after nearly 10 days in space in what was the ...

Now, you too can boldly go where Star Trek’s Capt. Picard and the android Data, of the USS Enterprise, have gone before … well almost. The Titan Missile Museum, in Sahuarita south of Tucson, is ...

Call it a chain reaction. A month after a decommissioned Titan II missile silo northwest of Tucson sold for more than the asking price, two more of the Cold War castoffs have hit the local real estate ...

The most dangerous part of Artemis II’s 10-day mission is fast approaching — when the capsule plunges through the atmosphere on its journey back to Earth and is scorched by temperatures half as hot as ...

Update: The Artemis II crew splashed down to end its mission successfully on Friday, April 10. Follow the latest here. Within seconds, temperatures across its 16.5-foot-wide heat shield will climb to ...

The four astronauts in the Artemis II mission are about 148,000 miles away from Earth, traveling at a velocity of 2,737 mph as of 11:18 a.m. ET April 9. The crew is roughly 7 days and 16 hours into ...

The four astronauts aboard the Artemis II are headed toward a historic journey around the moon. The test flight marks a major step in NASA's ambitious program of establishing a long-term presence on ...

Astronauts on the Artemis II mission to orbit the moon are preparing for perhaps the most exciting phase of their journey, when they will lay eyes on the far side of the moon, as they continue on ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...