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The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...

The dark side of the moon just got a little bit less mysterious. Artemis II astronauts on their 10-day mission to travel farther away from Earth than anybody has ever before got to see a ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts on an out-of-this-world journey, flew around the Moon on Monday. The crew members took turns describing the stunning landscape below and captured ...

On April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Integrity, swung around the far side of the moon, traveling farther from the Earth than any humans had ever gone before, and taking ...

CLEVELAND — As the historic NASA spacecraft Artemis II rocketed across the dark vastness outside the Earth’s pull of gravity and stepped into the neighborhood of the moon, a sense of excitement ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA’s Artemis II mission is approaching one of its most significant ...

The Artemis II mission will be the first time humans see certain parts of the moon's far side with their own eyes. This 10-day mission is a crewed test flight and will not land on the lunar surface.

Artemis II NASA astronaut Victor Glover greets family members before boarding the astronaut van for the drive to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 1, 2026.

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