Artemis II builds on prior missions including Artemis II and early Apollo missions, including Apollo 8, which set out for a ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission was the first to orbit the moon. No US spacecraft has returned to the moon since 1972, but that's all ...

On March 3, 1969, Apollo 9 launched three astronauts on the first crewed test flight of NASA’s lunar module, which astronauts later used to land on the moon. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and ...