Trump to honor Artemis II crew with nation's top space medal
President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission in a ceremony Aug. 28.
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President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA's Artemis II mission in a ceremony Aug. 28.
NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.
The Artemis II astronauts joined "CBS Mornings" for a live town hall where they took questions from kids just weeks after returning from their historic moon mission.
With Artemis II astronauts closing out on-board tests, flight controllers are prepping for reentry and splashdown Friday.
NASA launched four astronauts on a historic nine-day trip around the moon and back. Here's everything to know about the Artemis II mission.
China has sent a new crew to its Tiangong space station, including its youngest ever taikonaut, along with the first live mammals ever sent to the station.
38-year-old Rebecca Lawler is a native of Little Elm and is a former lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.
"CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King spoke about the opportunity to travel to space, the support she's received and the message she hopes to send to others.
Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams joined Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov for their long-awaited return to Earth.
NASA will wait at least another two days to launch its next space station crew, delaying the return of Starliner astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams a bit longer.
Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Butch Wilmore have not been "abandoned" in space, as NASA considers plans to speed their return.
The September Harvest Moon will see a partial lunar eclipse, peaking the night of Tuesday, Sept. 17.
William Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age, was killed when his small plane went down off the coast of Washington state.
In 1961, Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to enter an Air Force training program known as the path to NASA's Astronaut Corps. But he ultimately never made it to space.
Cunningham was one of three men who served on the first human test flight of the Apollo spacecraft, a mission that helped pave the way for astronauts to walk on the moon for the first time just months later.
On July 20, 2021, Wally Funk lived a dream that was more than six decades in the making.
NASA's first new space potty in decades is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before flying to the moon.
Dozens of young people gathered at Johnson Space Center in Texas gathered to dedicate themselves to service and the soldier administering the oath did it from 250 miles above the Earth.
"Not sure who was more excited," Christina Koch said in the tweet. "Glad she remembers me after a year!"
The Texas Legislative Conference has picked an Apollo 16 astronaut as the 2020 Texan of the Year.
A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball games and concerts Saturday, toasting with Tang and nibbling MoonPies.
Since July 20, 1969 marketers have jumped at the chance to make a buck off the moon -- selling everything from cars and televisions, to cereal and breakfast drinks.
SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year.
Two female astronauts had been scheduled to make history on the International Space Station Friday but it won't happen because there aren't enough spacesuits that fit the women properly.
