Wiseman, Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and Christina Koch were on track to pass as close as 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) to the moon, as their Orion capsule whips past it, hangs a U-turn and then heads back toward Earth. It will take them four days to get back, with a splashdown in the Pacific concluding their test flight on Friday.

Photojournalist Ann-Marie Spaulding shares her father's NASA artifacts from the Apollo era, revealing a personal and historic connection to space exploration.

The four astronauts who flew around the moon channeled Apollo 8’s famous 1968 Earthrise shot with a powerful photo of Earth setting behind the gray, pockmarked satellite.

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.

The four astronauts embarking on NASA's lunar flyby became on Monday the humans to travel farthest from our planet, as they begin documenting areas of the moon never before seen by the naked eye.

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman HOUSTON, April 6 (Reuters) - The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission cruised on Monday to the deepest point in space reached by any human, following the tug of lunar gravitational force en route to a rare crewed flyby over the shadowed far side of the moon.

Last week, on the day of the Artemis launch, a newsroom conversation turned into a powerful reminder of how NASA’s legacy still resonates today. During an editorial meeting, photojournalist