The last time NASA and the Defense Department teamed up for a lunar crew's reentry was Apollo 17 in 1972.
The three Americans and one Canadian are now headed home, with a splashdown in the Pacific set for Friday.
With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts kicked off their lunar flyby Monday, taking in magnificent views of the far side never before witnessed while setting a new distance record for humanity.
James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, has died. He was 97.
Four astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing's capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton
The space station is now back to its normal crew size of seven - four Americans and three Russians - after months of overflow.
The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday.
A Chinese spacecraft has landed on the moon’s far side to collect rocks in a growing space rivalry with U.S.
Last-minute computer trouble nixed Saturday’s launch attempt for Boeing's first astronaut flight.
Boeing is planning to attempt a second launch of its Starliner spacecraft around 9:25 a.m. PDT on Saturday.