The Artemis II crew splashed down April 10 after a record-breaking moon voyage, setting the stage for America's future crewed lunar missions.

Artemis II’s safe return renews focus on the few remaining Apollo Moonwalkers as NASA moves closer to its first human Moon landing since 1972

At this point in NASA’s human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material – documents, artifacts and images – with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon now in the books,

NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, has been a feast for the eyes. See the stunning images from the mission.

With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday, NASA is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the moon.

With the launch of Artemis II, Jim Head — who helped train astronauts, select landing sites and analyze samples during the Apollo Moon landings nearly 60 years ago — is excited about a new chapter in lunar exploration.

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern tweaks.

In 1972, during NASA’s Apollo 16 mission, astronaut Charlie Duke left behind more than footprints on the lunar surface, he placed a small, deeply personal object that still rests there today. According to NASA records and mission accounts,