People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo.

Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed spacecraft there, according to a count by the European Space Agency.

Members of the Artemis II launch team participate in an emergency escape or egress demonstration simulation for the Artemis II mission inside Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (NASA/Kim Shiflett)

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA is preparing to launch astronauts around the moon. On Wednesday, the agency will attempt to send four crew members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut ...

The most dangerous part of Artemis II’s 10-day mission is fast approaching — when the capsule plunges through the atmosphere on its journey back to Earth and is scorched by temperatures half as hot as the sun’s surface.

NASA is set to launch its second mission of its Artemis program, originally schedule for February, this week. During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 8, NASA said it had run ...