Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The heat shield is on the underside of the spacecraft, where it will protect the Artemis II crew upon entry into Earth's ...

Artemis 2's Orion capsule has returned to its Florida launch site, just three weeks after carrying four astronauts on a ...

The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening. After a whirlwind mission to the moon, astronauts are back home. Here's what's next ...

More than a week after launching on the farthest journey humans have ever taken, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is en route to splash back to Earth on Friday evening. The high-speed, ...

The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II astronauts has successfully splashed down off the coast of San Diego at 8:07PM Eastern time on April 10. It signals the conclusion of Artemis II’s 10-day ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean after making a high-speed ...

Erie native Leah Struchen Deans was at the engineering console in Houston during the Artemis II flight and will help engineer ...

NASA engineers have repaired a faulty helium seal on the upper stage of the Space Launch System rocket and cleared a ...

The Artemis II crew is returning to Earth. Here's how NASA's partner Amentum recovers the Orion spacecraft, and how astronauts are safely retrieved.