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
The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew's first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule's windows
