This deceleration allows NASA to pinpoint Orion's landing near the coastline, making it easier to recover the spacecraft's crew. Artemis 1 was NASA's first attempt at a skip reentry with a human ...

The crew would transfer to Orion and fly it home to Earth for splashdown. The astronauts for Artemis-III will be selected later this year while the landing sites will be chosen after NASA ...

The Artemis 2 mission in 2025 will use the SLS rocket to send a crew of four on a looping flight around the Moon aboard an Orion spacecraft. The first Artemis lunar landing comes with Artemis 3 ...

Artemis 1 was an uncrewed mission that sent NASA’s Orion capsule around the moon and back to Earth without landing. Artemis 2, scheduled for 2026, will send astronauts on a similar mission to ...

Assembly of the Artemis II moon rocket has reached its latest milestone with the stacking of the twin boosters' right forward center segment, NASA announced Friday.