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While Apollo was a ‘Lewis and Clark-like’ scientific expedition, planetary research professor James Head III said, Artemis has bigger ambitions: establishing a permanent base on the moon.
NASA's Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean after making a high-speed reentry through the atmosphere.
As the Orion spacecraft hurtles home, friction caused by reentry into Earth's atmosphere will drastically decrease its speed from a potential 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 kilometers per hour).
Reentry is one of the most dangerous aspects of any spaceflight. And Artemis II is going into this part of the journey with a known issue that mission controllers are tracking.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency's Jermey Hansen landed Saturday (April 11) at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, a sh
The astronauts on NASA's Artemis II moon mission are scheduled to land on Earth on Friday. But their re-entry is one of the riskiest parts of the mission, and the Orion spacecraft has known design flaws.
The Artemis II crew members spoke for the first time Saturday since returning to Earth on Friday after 10 historic days in space.
The Artemis II commander has been to the Moon and back. The moment that stuck with him most happened inside a 16.5-foot capsule.