But unlike the later Apollo missions, Artemis II will not land on the moon; it will be a test flight around the lunar body ahead of Artemis III, which “aims to someday land astronauts near the moon’s South Pole,

NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts.

In 1977, the United Kingdom's King Charles III, a prince at the time, met with NASA astronauts Fred Haise, Gordon Fullerton, Richard H. Truly and Joe Engle, the crew of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. The meeting occurred at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The company is trying to take advantage of President Donald Trump's desire to return astronauts to the lunar surface by the end of his term.

New footage shows one of NASA's WB-57 research jets spewing out flames and smoke as it skids across a runway during an emergency landing near Houston. The veteran aircraft was due to play a small role in the Artemis II mission.

NASA's recently approved budget comes right as the space giant prepares for the Artemis II mission and other massive space exploration projects. Bill Nye the Science Guy joins CBS News with more details.

The Goddard Space Flight Center library's holdings, containing unique documents from the space race, will be stored or disposed of.

The Crew-12 astronauts were already in line to take the Crew-11 quartet's place but had originally been scheduled to overlap with them before their return to Earth. SpaceX and NASA had originally targeted Feb. 15 for Crew-12's launch but managed to get the mission's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket ready ahead of schedule.