Neal said one of the big takeaways from Artemis II, apart from the performance of the Orion spacecraft itself, will be to teach NASA how to make geology part of human spaceflight again. The last Apollo landing mission in 1972 included astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, the only professional geologist to travel to the Moon.

The moon music tradition started more than 50 years ago, NASA said as it shared the Artemis II crew's playlist this week.

Over seven hours, the astronauts took thousands of photos that will help inform scientists’ understanding of the moon. The first ones have now been released.

NASA astronaut and Artemis 2 mission commander Reid Wiseman took a moment to snap a breathtaking photo of the full Earth.

The Artemis II crew flew farther from Earth than any humans in history as they passed over the far side of the moon on Monday night.

The distance Orion will travel during the Artemis II moon flyby will let the crew see the entire lunar disk, including features Apollo astronauts didn’t observe.

NASA unearthed an old Travis Kelce post on X nearly two decades after he wrote it, on Sunday, April 5, to coincide with Artemis II's trip around the moon.

As NASA’s Artemis II mission unfolds, with four astronauts on the first crewed lunar voyage since 1972’s Apollo 17, the U.S.’s elite status as the only nation to ever send humans to the moon remains