space-exploration

Since the first woman orbited Earth in 1963, women have played essential roles in human spaceflight across multiple nations and programs. This profile explains which women have...

Perseverance is NASA’s Mars rover launched as part of the Mars 2020 mission. Its primary goals include searching for signs of ancient microbial life, characterizing the planet...

Artemis 2 will be the first crewed flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, sending astronauts around the Moon and returning them to Earth. The heat shield is the only spacecra...

Apollo 13 featured two pilots who performed critical flying duties during the April 1970 mission. James A. Lovell Jr. served as the mission commander and was an experienced NASA...

Juno is a NASA solar-powered spacecraft designed to map Jupiter's composition, gravity, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere from a unique polar orbit. Launched in 2011, the...

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As of this writing, there is no confirmed Artemis launch today. The mission remains in standby while teams address weather, technical, and range constraints. This status clarifi...

Between 1969 and 1972, Apollo landed six crews on the Moon; since then, no human has gone beyond low Earth orbit. The primary reasons are not a single decision but a combination...

NASA’s lunar efforts span multiple programs that together form a long-term strategy to land humans on the Moon again and enable sustainable exploration. This article focuses o...

On April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 was about to land on the Moon when an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft 200,000 miles from Earth. This verified explainer examines what...