Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after blastoff, killing all seven people onboard. The tragedy nearly brought the shuttle program to an early end.

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, with the four-person crew expected to travel farther than any other human mission in spaceflight history.

One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA is delivering measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics, and cutting-edge technology.

Just a week after their unprecedented return to Earth following a medical issue onboard the International Space Station, the four members of Crew-11 presented a united front, indicating that the future of human spaceflight was bright.

The Artemis II mission will set several notable human spaceflight records. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen will travel farther from Earth than any human in history. They won’t land. That distinction will fall to the next mission in line in NASA’s Artemis program.

NASA reports that its moon mission is accelerating, with plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2028.

Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a fragile, government-run pipeline into a commercial service ...

Williams ranks sixth among Americans for the longest single spaceflight, tied with astronaut Butch Wilmore, after both spent 286 days in orbit during missions involving Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX Crew-9.

ASA astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams retired from the U.S. space agency on December 27, 2025, after nearly 30 years of service defined by endurance, leadership, and historic firsts. Her departure marks the close of one of NASA’s most distinguished astronaut careers,

NASA is progressing a little faster than originally predicted toward a critical fueling test of its Artemis 2 moon rocket. The agency had targeted no later than Feb. 2 to complete the "wet dress rehearsal" for the Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket,