Apollo Program Missions

Artemis, moon and Apollo

Artemis II carries Apollo 18 flag designated for canceled moon mission

The items were part of the official flight kit aboard the Orion spacecraft, launched atop the Space Launch System rocket.

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Is Artemis II just another Apollo mission? Key differences in NASA’s return to the Moon

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Apollo 17 astronaut reflects on Artemis II mission and confirms moon is not made of cheese

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Artemis II astronauts splash down off California’s coast after a historic journey around the moon

The Artemis II mission is coming to an end and the crew — NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — is returning to Earth.

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Artemis II’s record-breaking journey around the moon ends with dramatic splashdown

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Artemis II: A timeline of the historic mission told through photos

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How does Artemis II's re-entry differ from the Apollo missions?

The Apollo missions to the moon established many of the guidelines that we still use for space travel today, with some modern tweaks.

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Artemis II: New mission, old hardware – less recycling

What’s Inside NASA’s Mission Control

Inside mission control, each desk, or console, is labeled with a neon blue sign and its officers handle a subsystem on the spacecraft carrying the Artemis II crew. This station is the nucleus of the operation. It’s where the flight director makes real-time decisions for mission execution, and where troubleshooting occurs.

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Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell sends message to Artemis II before flyby

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his death in 2025.

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What happened to Apollo 13? 'Houston, we've had a problem'

What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the crew of Apollo 13 into a 200,000-mile race for survival.