An astronaut aboard the Artemis II mission to the moon broke protocol by sneaking the crew’s mascot back down to Earth.

The space race was a big deal in the 1960s, and the astronauts were the celebrities of their era, but why did almost all of them drive Corvettes?

To mark their successful mission to the moon, the returning astronauts were given handmade replicas of an Apollo-era design.

Reid Wiseman, the NASA Artemis 2 commander, was supposed to leave a little plushie moon toy — called Rise — for later ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — More than 50 years have passed since humans visited the moon, and history was made on Wednesday as NASA launched its crewed Artemis II for a flyby of Earth’s lunar sister.