RR Auction’s April 23 sale features Gene Cernan’s thrice‑flown 1953 $2 note—the only paper money carried in Earth and lunar ...

A personal reflection on space exploration, from Apollo to Artemis II, highlights triumphs, tragedies and human resilience.

The repository, posted by NASA's Chris Garry and designated as public domain, contains two distinct programs: Comanche055, ...

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Amid what some call a new space race, the historic journey around the moon tested a spacecraft that had never before been ...

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

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NASA's Artemis II crew reaches the moon's gravitational sphere, approaching record-breaking Earth distance in a pioneering ...

From outdated tech to funding hurdles, here’s why astronauts haven’t landed on the moon in over five decades Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty; Heritage Space/Heritage Images/Getty Astronauts haven't landed on ...

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...