Nature

Artemis II mission is about to fly humans to the Moon — here’s the science they’ll do

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. If all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a ...
CNN

Artemis II astronauts will see parts of the moon no human has before. Here’s how

The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon Monday, including the rarely glimpsed lunar far side, which always faces away ...
The New York Times

Artemis II Astronauts Fly Away From Earth Toward the Moon

After a day of testing the Orion capsule high above the planet, the crew of the NASA mission became the first people to head into deep space since 1972. Katrina Miller Reporting from Johnson Space ...
NBC News

2026 will be the year NASA astronauts fly around the moon again — if all goes to plan

If all goes according to NASA’s plans, 2026 will finally be the year that astronauts once again launch to the moon. In a matter of months, four astronauts are poised to fly around the moon on a ...
Houston Public Media

NASA could launch Artemis II to the moon next week. Here’s what to know

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander; Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot; Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist; and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II ...
Astronomy

As it happened: Artemis 2 flies past Moon, sees a total eclipse

Four astronauts have flown around the Moon today, the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. The seven-hour flyby took them farther from Earth than any humans in history — roughly 252,000 ...