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Before etching their names in spaceflight history, the four Artemis II astronauts received some posthumous words of encouragement from one of NASA's greats. Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era ...

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NASA’s Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest human travel from Earth. The four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft surpassed the previous record of 400,171km (248,655 miles) ...

The Artemis II astronauts received a posthumous message from Apollo-era astronaut Jim Lovell. During their lunar flyby, the crew broke Lovell's Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ...

On Saturday, April 4, on the eve of Easter, as the Artemis 2 crew traversed cislunar space 180,000 miles (290,000 kilometers) from Earth, the pilot of Integrity, Victor Glover, was asked in a video ...

The Artemis II astronauts received a call from Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke. Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen was presented with his astronaut wings while in flight. The crew is ...

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Inside mission control during the dramatic rescue of Apollo 13. On April 17, 1970, the command module for the Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean near the Samoan Islands with ...

Artemis II has now traveled further into space from Earth than any other human in history, passing the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Artemis II is in the middle of its 10-day mission to ...

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.