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Humanity on Monday traveled the farthest ever into space when Artemis II broke the record set more than 50 years ago by Apollo 13. Artemis II’s four astronauts zoomed past Apollo 13’s 248,655-mile ...

On April 4, 1968, NASA launched the final uncrewed test flight of its Saturn V rocket. The Apollo 6 mission demonstrated that the Saturn V rocket and the Apollo spacecraft were ready to send ...

Before etching their names in spaceflight history, the four Artemis II astronauts received some posthumous words of encouragement from one of NASA's greats. Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artemis II's flight path (not to scale) as imagined by an artist for NASA The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth ...

The Artemis II astronauts received a posthumous message from Apollo-era astronaut Jim Lovell. During their lunar flyby, the crew broke Lovell's Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — For the first time in more than 50 years, a manned rocket blasted off from Earth on a historic mission around the moon. The Artemis II launched from Florida on Wednesday, sending a crew ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is making history as humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972. Four astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — are on track to surpass Apollo 13’s record for the ...

With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts set a record Monday as the farthest humans from Earth during a lunar flyby promising magnificent views of the far side never before ...