The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon.

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon.

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...

Artemis II will send astronauts around the moon in February-April 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in 53 years ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong is captured in an image taken by fellow moonwalker, Buzz Aldrin, ...

NASA's first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years moved one step closer to liftoff recently with a full launch day ...

In February 1966, a Gemini crew’s T 38 jet slammed into McDonnell’s Building 101 in a storm, killing two astronauts and ...