NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have fired their engines and are blazing toward the moon.

With the charge of “for all of humanity,” the four astronauts launched toward the moon Wednesday in a historic launch for the 32-story Space Launch System rocket and the Artemis II mission.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.

The Artemis program to land the first woman on the moon, following the path of many trailblazing women in space.

The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.

As astronaut Christina Koch prepares to become the first woman to orbit the moon on Artemis II, a NASA engineer argues the milestone should spark a broader conversation about representation — and whether “female” should still be part of the headline.

Final checks underway to make sure the Artemis II mission is a go.

The four astronauts making NASA's next lunar leap bear little resemblance to the Apollo era.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century have arrived at their launch site.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century have arrived at their launch site.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA is now targeting early Wednesday to roll the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, the agency said on Monday.

The replacements for the astronauts involved in NASA's first medical evacuation are on their way to the International Space Station.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record.

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo.

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The mission is a year away, but preparations continue toward launching astronauts deeper into space than any crew in more than 50 years.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon next year have gotten their first look at their spacecraft.

NASA has named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year.

NASA officials announced the astronauts who will crew the Artemis II mission as early as 2024.