The Artemis II crew — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — includes the first person of color (Glover), the first woman (Koch) and the ...

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

II astronauts will return for a 10-day deep-space mission that’ll test new spacecraft, new partnerships and a new approach to ...

China’s Mengzhou is putting pressure on NASA’s lunar timeframe ...

Not only will Artemis II be the first mission to reach the moon in more than half a century, it will also represent a significant demographic and cultural shift. Koch will be the first woman to go to ...

Discover the Apollo Lunar Module (LM), the spacecraft that transported astronauts to the moon's surface. This video provides an inside look at the module's two main parts: the ascent stage, which ...

2026 will bring several lunar events that backyard astronomers will want to stay awake for. The first full moon of the year will take place on Saturday, Jan. 3, and is known as the Wolf Moon, ...

Moon watchers will have plenty to enjoy in 2026 with three supermoons and two lunar eclipses during the year. Each month brings its own full moon, and each has its own name and traditions, based on ...

As the new calendar year begins, lunar phases and celestial events await in 2026. This report highlights the lunar phases with dates and times for the full moon and the new moon lunar calendar for the ...

President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the deputy commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, as director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, the ...

The Army is standing up a new Western Hemisphere Command effective Friday, consolidating three major commands under a single headquarters as part of the sweeping restructuring of the force. The new ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for the intense and out-of-this-world training these pioneers underwent.