After traveling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now. Their flyby of the moon - NASA's first return since the Apollo era - even included some celestial sightseeing besides yielding
The four astronauts embarking on NASA's lunar flyby became the humans to travel furthest from our planet on Monday, as they get set to view areas of the Moon never before seen by the naked eye. The Artemis II team broke the previous record set by 1970's Apollo 13 mission, which they are expected to surpass by approximately 4,105 miles (6,606 kilometres)
More than 50 years after humans last set foot on the moon, a new wave of missions is aiming not only to revisit it, but to lay the groundwork for humanity’s future beyond Earth. The last time humans walked on the moon was in December 1972 during NASA’s Apollo 17 mission. Now, attention has turned to NASA’s Artemis programme. Artemis 2, which lifted
Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again. The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar far side as they
