The letter A obviously stands for the name of the project, Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals, virginity, and who was associated with the moon, much like Diana in Roman mythology. She was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister to Apollo.

NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are ...

With the spacecraft crippled and more than 210,000 miles from Earth, flight directors and engineers in Houston, led by Eugene F. Kranz, worked tirelessly with astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise to ensure their safe return,

Artemis II’s safe return renews focus on the few remaining Apollo Moonwalkers as NASA moves closer to its first human Moon landing since 1972

In 1972, during NASA’s Apollo 16 mission, astronaut Charlie Duke left behind more than footprints on the lunar surface, he placed a small, deeply personal object that still rests there today. According to NASA records and mission accounts,