NASA's efforts to return humans to the lunar surface took a short but critical leap forward on Tuesday (July 2), in a test that evoked the last time the space agency shot for the moon. The Ascent ...

A small team (Appendix 1) was chartered by NASA to make a top-level assessment of the viability of using the Apollo Command and Service Modules the basis for a Crew Return Vehicle, and potentially for ...

The Orion Artemis I spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, inside the Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2020. When Congress directed NASA to develop a new ...

Before Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, becoming the first human to step on another world, we had to be ready. A big part of the readiness came earlier that year, when three astronauts flew in ...