The Orion capsule punched through Earth’s atmosphere trailing a sheath of superheated plasma, then drifted beneath three red-and-white parachutes before hitting the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 5:07 ...
After ten days in space and a journey that took them farther from Earth than any human beings, the four astronauts are nearly home. Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test ...