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.

The Artemis II astronauts are the first humans to see and photograph the far-side of the moon with the unaided eye.

During the mission's loop around the moon, the crew took geological observations of places of interest on the lunar surface using their own eyes and snapping thousands of photos of the surface.

NASA's Artemis II mission has sent four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The mission is the first in over 50 years to send humans to the vicinity of the moon. The crew includes the first woman, first Black man, and first Canadian to travel ...

Meet the Press broadcast from Cape Kennedy space center and welcomed the three NASA astronauts who commanded Apollo missions 8, 9 and 10 ahead of the historic launch of Apollo 11, which would land Americans on the moon.

Commentary: NASA sent four astronauts farther into space than any humans have ever traveled. But there's a much deeper subtext about what it all means. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of ...