After completing their mission on the Moon, the Apollo astronauts returned to the Command Module (CM), which was orbiting the ...

Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth and Moon with four astronauts ... lunar program since the Apollo missions ended in 1972.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

NASA bumped up the return flight home plans for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that includes a pair of astronauts who were left behind on the International Space Station by Boeing’s Starliner. Butch ...

Blue Ghost touched down smoothly, having been orbiting the ... on the surface of the Moon, the kind that had been forgotten after the Apollo era when we had astronauts on the [lunar] surface." ...

December 24, 1968 – Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders become the first humans to orbit the moon. April 1971 – Salyut, a crewed orbiting space lab, is launched by the ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the Moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat, according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based ...

Blue Ghost touched down smoothly, having been orbiting the Moon for the last ... a technology for landing on the surface of the Moon, the kind that had been forgotten after the Apollo era when we had ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

This image provided by Firefly Aerospace on Feb. 26, 2025 shows Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander orbiting the moon ... put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since NASA astronauts ...