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).

NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions and the extraordinary surge required by NASA’s Orion space capsule as it flew around the Moon.

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,

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,

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.

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

The computer that guided astronauts to the moon and back operated with roughly 2,048 words of erasable memory and 36,864 words of fixed memory, running at a clock speed near 2 MHz. A smartphone released in the past few years can execute billions of operations per second while simultaneously streaming video,