In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around the moon.

But the bones of the operation have not changed, said Judd Frieling, one of the Artemis II flight directors, who spoke from mission control to reporters on Saturday. Every spacecr

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's first lunar campaign in five decades since the Apollo era came to an end should be a little more technologically advanced than its 1960s-70s counterpart. The U.S. space agency has ...

Following the successful splashdown of the Artemis II mission on April 10, 2026, hundreds of flight controllers and personnel rushed into the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to celebrate the crew’s safe return.

In the first endeavor to orbit the moon in more than half a century, four astronauts launched on the Artemis II mission from Cape Canaveral. A Monitor journalist watched the historic step toward a lunar mission from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Twin control rooms at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are actively supporting real-time mission operations in lunar orbit as part of the agency's Artemis II mission, helping ensure astronaut safety and mission success as the crew prepares to return to Earth Friday,

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares to return to Earth on Friday, April 10, a Hamilton High School grad will be monitoring its progress.