making the crew on board the first to ever travel beyond the moon. Get top local San Diego stories delivered to you every morning with our News Headlines newsletter. The recovery team, made up of ...

Artemis II — set to launch in early 2026 and land off San Diego — will be lofted by Boeing’s SLS rocket for the first manned trip to the moon since 1972, making a fly-by but not landing.

Japan has joined an elite club by landing ... on the moon Saturday, a milestone that puts the country in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China.

(AP) — Landing a spacecraft ... decade. The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over the years. A rundown on the moon’s winners and losers: The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 ...

The moon landing was on July 20, 1969. The Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 16. Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins, the command module pilot ...

What is the toughest part about a Moon landing is not to get near the Moon, but it’s about getting close to the surface without getting lost. Since there are no navigation satellites beyond ...