The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8. A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking new photos taken by the crew.

But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.

Does an Artemis II photo taken in April 2026 show the same cloud patterns as an Apollo 8 photo from 1968? No, that's not true: The "Artemis 2" image, dated April 6, 2026, is AI-generated and is based

The Artemis II astronauts broke NASA's Apollo 13 record for farthest human spaceflight, then traveled out to an unprecedented 252,756 miles from Earth.

Wiseman, Hansen, pilot Victor Glover and Christina Koch were on track to pass as close as 4,070 miles (6,550 kilometers) to the moon, as their Orion capsule whips past it, hangs a U-turn and then heads back toward Earth. It will take them four days to get back, with a splashdown in the Pacific concluding their test flight on Friday.

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, NASA said the Artemis II mission has carried a collection of historic mementos. Among them was a flag originally designated

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission is about to make spaceflight history as they approach the moon for the first time in more than half-a-century.

Artemis II astronauts got a special wake-up message from legendary astronaut Jim Lovell, the late commander for the Apollo 13 mission, which he recorded before he died at age 97 last year.

The four astronauts who flew around the moon channeled Apollo 8’s famous 1968 Earthrise shot with a powerful photo of Earth setting behind the gray, pockmarked satellite.

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.