Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao discusses the Artemis II mission and the outlook for future moon and Mars exploration on ‘The Sunday Briefing.’

The four astronauts making NASA’s next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era.The Americans who blazed the trail to the moon more than half a century ago were white men chosen for their military test pilot experience.

On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from one or both of SpaceX and Blu

The crew of Artemis II spoke to reporters after landing in Florida. Their historic mission around the moon could be just days away.

The Astronauts for NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly around the moon have arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just five days before their historic mission is scheduled to lift off.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrived from Houston at 2:15 p.m. to Kennedy Space Center as they target a launch as early as Wednesday evening.

Final preparations are underway at the Kennedy Space Center for the launch of NASA’s historic Artemis II mission, marking the first time humans will journey to the Moon in more than half a century. The test flight,

NASA is aiming for liftoff as soon as Wednesday, April 1. The space agency has the first six days of April to launch the rocket.