The Artemis II mission astronauts have received a hero's welcome back home in Houston, Texas, the day after they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after returning from the Moon. It was a fiery descent lasting about 15 minutes, finishing around 7:07pm ET ...

The four Artemis II astronauts are back safely on Earth after flying around the moon on NASA’s first lunar mission in more than 50 years. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. After a fiery ...

The crew traveled aboard the Orion capsule (that they dubbed “Integrity”), which reentered Earth’s atmosphere before deploying parachutes and landing in a designated recovery zone, where teams quickly moved in to retrieve both the spacecraft and its ...

3:03 NASA’s Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore successfully return to Earth after 9 months stuck on ISS Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening, just hours after departing the International Space Station. Splashdown ...

The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission splashed down Friday off the coast of California, right on schedule, after completing a test mission around the Moon that NASA described as flawless, marking a major milestone more than 50 years after the ...