NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.

In just the next few years, NASA aims to land the first astronauts on the moon since 1972, including the first woman to voyage to the lunar surface. Following in the footsteps of the Apollo program, this 21st century lunar campaign, called Artemis, could return humans to the moon’s surface as soon as 2025.

NASA is just days away from launching Artemis I, the first of several missions that will include mankind’s return to the moon. On Monday, NASA said that the rocket was ready for its launch. It is the first of several launches as part of the Artemis ...

The United States walked away from the Moon just as it seemed to master it, then spent decades sketching ever more ambitious paths to Mars that never quite left the drawing board. The shift was not a clean break from one destination to another so much as a tangle of politics,

That first test flight was grounded for months because of leaking hydrogen. NASA announced the news Tuesday, shortly after the critical fueling test ended at Kennedy Space Center. Until the hydrogen leaks,