The Artemis 2 mission is due to send astronauts on a test mission to the moon and back during the "opening act" of a new age of discovery.

NASA officials on Monday started the two-day countdown to the Artemis II mission launch, which will send a crew of four around the moon.

Artemis II astronauts, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, ...

Artemis II mission is set to launch at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center. The mission will send a crew of four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artemis II astronauts, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, take ...

NASA started the countdown clock for Artemis II while SpaceX lined up another launch with a record-setting booster.

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: “Why has it taken so long to return to the Moon?” After all, NASA had the ...

The Artemis 2 mission is currently scheduled to lift off at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) on April 1 aboard NASA's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The NASA Artemis II mission has a countdown timeline. A launch countdown includes “L Minus” to indicate how far away liftoff is in hours and minutes, and “T Minus” to show a ...

If all goes to plan, later today NASA will launch four people on a journey around the Moon. Some of the key experiments that will be conducted during the mission will explore how deep-space travel ...

NASA launched four astronauts on the Artemis II mission for a 10-day trip that will fly by the moon sending humans into deep space for the first time in more than half a century. It lifted off at 6:35 ...