Artemis II's Moon-Traveling Astronauts Return Home to Cheers
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It may be April Fools’ Day, but NASA is expected to make a historic lunar journey for the first time since the Apollo mission in 1972, launching a crew of four astronauts aboard Artemis II to the
NASA’s historic Artemis II mission comes to an end on Friday, April 10, when the spacecraft returns from the moon in an unprecedented landing in the Pacific Ocean. Live streaming of the re-entry to Earth will be on several platforms,
Less than an hour before the Artemis II astronauts are due to land near California, SpaceX could launch a rocket about 200 miles north.
As launch time approaches for NASA's first moonshot in more than half a century, anticipation is building for the Artemis II mission. Here's how to watch today's liftoff.
NASA is set to send four astronauts on a mission around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, and viewers can watch the launch countdown live on April 1. Artemis II i
USA Today will begin live streaming the Artemis II moon mission and launch beginning at 9 a.m. April 1. The trajectory for Artemis II will be toward the east after it launches from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral. NASA's graphic shows where where the rocket could be visible at various times after the launch.
Four astronauts onboard the Orion in the Artemis II mission are beginning their gravity-assisted descent back into Earth's atmosphere. Here's how and where to watch the splashdown, set to take place around 8 p.
The Artemis II mission launch is scheduled for Wednesday, April 1, 2026. Liftoff is set for 18:24 (U.S. Eastern Time / ET), which corresponds to 15:24 PT, 16:24 MT, and 17:24 CT.