Splashdown occurred in the Pacific Ocean at 1:07 p.m. April 17, after a flight that lasted five days, 22 hours and 54 minutes. [...] ...

NASA built a spacecraft computer that can lose three systems mid-flight and still keep astronauts alive 250,000 miles from ...

For a generation born after the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, it represents not just a technical milestone, but a defining ...

For Toledo native Thomas Hughes, the splashdown brought back memories of his own role in space history. Hughes helped recover ...

At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and ...

The repository, posted by NASA's Chris Garry and designated as public domain, contains two distinct programs: Comanche055, ...

In 1987, I met Space Shuttle Mission Specialist Dr Mary L Cleave who had flown on Flight STS 61 on the Atlantis shuttle from ...

It was a crucial first step in an ambitious program to eventually return people to the lunar surface, build a base there and ...

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

SiFive Inc., a startup that sells chip designs based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, has raised $400 million in ...

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...

The latest updates on Artemis II, including the crew’s Easter message and what they said as they broke the deep-space record.