Americas

The Pacific Ocean welcomed the heroes at the "golden hour": at sunset, several hundred miles west of San Diego, the 10-day Artemis II mission came to a close. The four astronauts who flew around the Moon were safely brought aboard the recovery vessel USS John P. Murtha. …

NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar mission launched successfully on April 1 at 6:35 PM Eastern Time from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The world's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, carried the Orion spacecraft with four astronauts aboard. The …