The Artemis II astronauts flew back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston Saturday to cheers and applause from family members and hundreds of NASA workers.

By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - At 12 years old, Naia Butler-Craig decided she wanted to be an astronaut. Each time she walked into St. Mark AME Church in Orlando, Florida, and saw the framed photo of Mae Jemison,

Social media users were overwhelmed by the astronaut's moving last words, with one saying: "What a humble, inspiring human."

After making history on their journey around the moon, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are coming home.

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman’s wife, Carroll, was 46 years old when she died of cancer. The nurse inspired the Artemis II crew to name a moon crater after her.

The NASA astronaut is part of the first manned moon mission in over five decades

Astronaut Christina Koch poses with zero-gravity indicator "Rise" in the viewport of the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft.

As the crew of Artemis II prepares to return to Earth on Friday night, splashing down on the coast off California after their historic 10-day mission to the far side of the moon, former astronaut Mike Massimino joins TODAY to break down what to expect for re-entry.

Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human biology.

Commander Reid Wiseman and the three astronauts on his Artemis II team have gone farther into space than anyone in history. Not by a smidge, mind you, but by several thousands of miles. So, on Friday,