For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four ...

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...

Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about the science of outer space and the history of space travel. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

This week, Artemis II took off from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, making its four astronauts the first people to have gone beyond low-Earth orbit in more than half a century.

The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...