CLEVELAND — As the historic NASA spacecraft Artemis II rocketed across the dark vastness outside the Earth’s pull of gravity and stepped into the neighborhood of the moon, a sense of excitement ...

For the first time, humans will see with their own eyes parts of the moon never seen before — the Artemis II crew set to be the first to witness certain geological features of our moon's far side ...

The Artemis II mission will be the first time humans see certain parts of the moon's far side with their own eyes. This 10-day mission is a crewed test flight and will not land on the lunar surface.

As Artemis II makes its journey around the moon, the mission rekindles memories of Apollo 11's historic flight 57 years ago. Leon Bibb shares his reflections. Trump’s chances of being removed by 25th ...

Artemis II NASA astronaut Victor Glover greets family members before boarding the astronaut van for the drive to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 1, 2026.

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...