NASA on Monday named the four astronauts who will fly around the moon late next year, including the first woman and the first African American assigned to a lunar mission.

For the first time in history, a woman and a man of color will fly to the moon with NASA. The organization this week announced its team for its upcoming lunar mission, celebrating the record ...

Christina Koch, a Nasa astronaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, will be a mission specialist on next year's Artemis II flight around the Moon.

Dennis Tito, first "space tourist," teams up with SpaceX to return to space 04:04. Dennis Tito, an 82-year-old aerospace engineer-turned-financial analyst who paid Russia $20 million for a trip to ...

That mission will see NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and record-breaking Christina Koch, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, flying around the Moon but not landing on it.

NASA, an independent agency of the U.S. government, will no longer be upholding DEI efforts. In a press release, NASA shared its plans to comply with executive order “Initial Rescissions of ...

The first landing on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 has been assigned to Artemis III, the crew of which has not been announced. The target date for that landing is on NASA’s calendar for ...

In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.