A conspiracy theorist claims NASA’s Artemis mission was fake, but his main evidence is not rocket data, physics, or mission telemetry. It is the astronauts’ smiles after splashdown. He calls it “duper ...

HOHOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy.

Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant ...

The four Artemis II astronauts are back safely on Earth after flying around the moon on NASA's first lunar mission in more than 50 years. After a fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere that lasted ...

DENVER, April 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- After traveling 694,481 miles to the Moon and back, the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built Orion spacecraft has successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, ...

HOUSTON — Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was ...

The primary issue is that a returning spacecraft is hurtling at the Earth at breathtaking speed; Orion hit Mach 35. How on ...

It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human eyes — but a total solar eclipse.