Neil Armstrong, Ohio teachers inspired astronaut Nancy Currie-Gregg

Nancy Currie-Gregg pursued her dream of becoming an astronaut despite the Challenger disaster, flying four missions into ...

The Challenge the Artemis II Crew Gave the Rest of Us

At a moment that perfectly dovetailed with many Americans’ yearning for a personal mental-health day (just one?), Artemis II, ...
Mid-Day

Artemis II crew ‘go’ where no one has gone before

In 1987, I met Space Shuttle Mission Specialist Dr Mary L Cleave who had flown on Flight STS 61 on the Atlantis shuttle from ...
Scientific American

NASA’s moon plans relegate space planes to an almost-forgotten future

After all these years, Dream Chaser—a commercial U.S. space plane—is still chasing the dream of spacecraft that can fly from ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

How will NASA get the Artemis II crew safely back on Earth? Here's the science behind splashdown

While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft will hurdle through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound and ...

What’s Inside NASA’s Mission Control

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the ...

Here’s how many astronauts have gone to space and the moon

Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Mission Commander ...

The science behind splashdown − how NASA got the Artemis II crew safely back on Earth

(THE CONVERSATION) The crew of NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission splashed back down to Earth on April 10, 2026, in their Orion spacecraft. While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft ...

The science behind splashdown and how NASA will get the Artemis crew back safely

The crew of NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby mission will splash back down to Earth on April 10, 2026, in their Orion spacecraft ...
The Week

Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the visual story of their lunar journey – and update some classic Apollo images

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 ...