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55 years ago today in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders put it all on the line to get America to the Moon ahead of the Soviets. 

Part of NASA's training for the Artemis II astronauts includes sending them down a little slide. But there's a good reason for the exercise.

The Artemis 2 crew went through emergency drills as part of preparation for the mission to the Moon and back.

When Artemis 1's moon rocket arrived on the launch pad in 2022, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman spent months gathering a group to fly over it.

Four astronauts are getting ready to travel to the Moon and back for NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, and the space agency is making sure that the crew is well-prepared in case things go wrong during the 10-day journey through space.

The first astronauts to fly around the Moon under NASA’s Artemis program visited the White House in Washington Thursday, and met with President Joe Biden in

SpaceX Starship finally flies—and then explodes. NASA gets its hands on asteroid chunks but can't open the container. Catch up on the year in spaceflight.

After he was marooned on Mars, Matt Damon’s character in the space thriller The Martian struggled to live on the red planet, facing issue after issue. But

Earthlings expanded their collective reach into, and knowledge of, the cosmos in 2023, launching mega rockets, traveling billions of miles to bring asteroid samples back to earth and more.

Utah played a key role in one of the biggest space stories of 2023, but it was a year of grand accomplishments and spectacular visuals.