NASA is targeting an April 1 launch for its Artemis II mission around the moon, marking the first crewed lunar flight since Apollo in 1972.

After a nerve-wracking six-minute communications blackout, during which the Artemis II Orion spacecraft plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere at over 25,000 miles per hour – reaching temperatures of ...

The Orion capsule that ferried the crew during the mission landed off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m. Eastern time, broadcast on a NASA livestream.