As the Artemis II crew heads for a splashdown near California, here's a look at the most stunning and defining images taken during the NASA mission.

A historic Bay Area aircraft carrier that once helped bring astronauts home from the moon is now serving as a real-life reminder of how far space travel has come. Now docked in Alameda as a sea, air

"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from the moon in over 50 years.

The weather forecast looks good for today's scheduled splashdown of the Artemis II Orion crew module. Tentatively set for shortly after 8 pm. ET/5 pm PT this evening, the splashdown site will be off the coast of San Diego where the Navy's amphibious transport dock ship,

The documentary filmmaker who helped spearhead the bronze, lifelike Apollo 11 statue anchored at Kennedy Space Center wants to waste no time in honoring the astronauts of Artemis II. “It took 50 years to get the first one built.

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts came home April 10, wrapping up a historic mission that broke records and set the stage for even more ambitious moonshots to come.

NASA's Artemis II mission is returning to Earth April 10, 2026, with splashdown occurring in California. See what time splashdown is, how to watch live

On July 24, 1969, the ship was waiting for splashdown in the Pacific southwest of Hawaii when suddenly they were told that there was a thunderstorm heading their way. The Air Force discreetly ordered the ship to move about 240 miles,