The Orion heat shield used for the Artemis II mission held up perfectly, early photos and a NASA assessment reveal.

On April 10, 2026, NASA’s Artemis 2 mission will see astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at a record-breaking speed of 23,840 mph.

The Artemis II crew has already done the hard part ... or so it seemed. They survived liftoff, passed through radiation ...

NASA’s historic Artemis II mission which launched on April 1, 2026, has concluded with a triumphant splashdown but engineers ...

When Artemis II reenters earth's atmosphere, NASA will test out a new trajectory, calculated after the heat shield for its ...

The NASA flight is hours away from parachuting into the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, concluding a journey that sent humans ...

Now that the Artemis II astronauts are safely home from their moon mission, NASA is investigating how well its spacecraft's ...

From 250 miles above Earth, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station watched the Artemis II crew come home — and ...

NASA says a white area spotted on the spacecraft matches test results, countering online doubts about reentry.

NASA's Artemis II mission concluded successfully with the Orion spacecraft and its four astronauts splashing down in the ...

As four astronauts make their fiery plunge through the atmosphere Friday evening, they'll rely on a heat shield with known ...

Artemis II astronauts are set to splash down Friday night, ending their 10-day mission during which they circled the moon, setting a record for traveling the farthest distance from earth.