Apollo Astronaut Training

Apollo, Artemis

NASA Artemis crew breaks Apollo record; Astronauts break down in tears after special request from space

NASA’s Artemis astronauts set a new record for the farthest human distance from Earth, surpassing Apollo at 1:57 p.m., while honoring integrity and family with symbolic crater names.

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Artemis II astronauts break Apollo 13 record, make moving request to name moon craters

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Artemis II Astronauts Head Home After Historic Journey Around the Moon

On the sixth day, 248,655 miles from Earth, four people ventured farther from home than any human being who has ever lived.

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Artemis II crew is ‘homeward bound’ after swinging by the Moon.

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Artemis II Flight Day 6: Crew Of 4 Concludes 7-Hour Lunar Flyby; What's Next?

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Artemis II crew witnesses rare cosmic eclipse while behind the moon | VIDEO

Unlike eclipses on Earth that last only a few minutes, this one stretches for nearly an hour due to the spacecraft’s unique path.

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Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse

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Artemis II astronauts to make record-setting moon flyby

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He walked on the moon in 1972. This is his advice for the Artemis II astronauts.

Harrison Schmitt, now 90, was on the Apollo 17 mission — the last time humans visited the moon. On Wednesday, NASA's Artemis II mission aims to kickstart a return.

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Inside NASA’s astronaut training for a historic moon mission

In just days, a group of astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — is slated to fly roughly 5,000 miles past the far side of the moon, the farthest humans have ever traveled in space.

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Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell sends message to Artemis II before flyby

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who flew on two Apollo-era missions in 1968 and 1970, recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his death in 2025.

NASA Families Don’t Go to the Moon, but They’re on the Mission, Too

As NASA grew, the culture shifted to less personal and more bureaucratic, and astronaut families fell out of public view. The Astronaut Wives Club morphed into an organization known as the Astronaut Spouses Group, which interfaces with NASA’s Astronaut Family Support Office and its Behavioral Health and Performance Operations group.

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NASA Artemis program using Colorado mountains for astronaut moon landing training

The course will bring astronauts to fly helicopters in Colorado’s difficult mountain terrain to prepare for the intricate challenges of landing on the lunar South Pole.