NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Wednesday defended the decision to use an all-male crew for the approaching Artemis III mission. “I have seen reactions ranging from disappointment to outrage,” Isaacman wrote in a post on X,

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano will serve as pilot on Artemis III, marking a milestone for Europe's participation in the program which will bring once again a human on the Moon. NASA has announced the four-member crew assigned to the Artemis III mission,

The next big Artemis announcement is just hours away. In Houston today (June 9), NASA will reveal the four-person Artemis 3 crew and provide a progress update about the mission, agency officials said on Tuesday evening (May 26).

Two astronauts with California ties are bound for the moon in 2028, after NASA unveiled the crew that will undertake a key mission in its effort to return humans to lunar orbit. On Tuesday, the space agency named the four selected for its Artemis III mission,

Blue Origin assess the impact of Thursday's New Glenn explosion, prompting concern about NASA moon program delays.

NASA is moving forward with a major modernization effort at Johnson Space Center, awarding contracts to seven companies that will help upgrade aging facilities and infrastructure at the Houston campus that has served as the center of America’s human spaceflight program for more than six decades.

NASA officials on Tuesday detailed the space agency’s plans to establish a lunar base, where astronauts could live and work long-term with the ultimate goal of studying the moon and its origins, as well as how best to send the first humans to Mars.

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed ...