NASA will reveal the astronauts assigned to its Artemis III mission Tuesday during a major announcement at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, giving the public its first look at the crew selected for a pivotal step in the agency’s return-to-the-Moon program.

NASA is moving forward with a major modernization effort at Johnson Space Center, awarding contracts to seven companies that will help upgrade aging facilities and infrastructure at the Houston campus that has served as the center of America’s human spaceflight program for more than six decades.

NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission.

The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began.

With NASA's lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash, the space agency already has the next Artemis flight in its sights.

Artemis II's moon-traveling astronauts are back home and feted to a thunderous welcome.

University of Houston aerospace engineering and space architecture students gathered to watch the final moments of NASA’s Orion mission, and for a few breathless minutes, the room fell completely silent.

After traveling hundreds of thousands of miles around the moon, the four astronauts aboard Artemis II are set to make their return to Earth Friday evening, with a high-stakes splashdown marking the final and most dangerous phase of the mission.

The Artemis II astronauts are tidying up their lunar cruiser for Friday's “fireball” return to Earth.

As NASA sends astronauts farther into space than any human has traveled in decades, the most dangerous part of the mission isn’t the launch… or even the trip around the moon.

If you’ve ever wondered what astronauts wake up to while orbiting the moon… it’s not silence, it’s a full-on vibe.

Before astronauts aboard Artemis II ever left Earth, they spent years inside a simulator in Houston preparing for nearly every scenario they could face in space.

The countdown to the moon doesn’t start on a launchpad. For the team at Axiom Space in Houston, it starts years before, at a workbench, stitch by stitch.

New images of the moon from NASA’s Artemis II mission are offering rare, detailed views from deep space, captured using a carefully selected set of cameras aboard the spacecraft.

The Artemis II astronauts are chatting it up with their friends aboard the International Space Station.

The Artemis II astronauts are chatting it up with their friends aboard the International Space Station.

The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8.

NASA officials shared new details on the Artemis II mission, highlighting life support limits, technical challenges, and what astronauts may observe during their trip around the Moon.

The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record.

The Artemis II astronauts have completed their record-breaking trip around the moon.

NASA officials shared new details on the Artemis II mission, highlighting life support limits, technical challenges, and what astronauts may observe during their trip around the Moon.

The new space movie “Project Hail Mary” starring Ryan Gosling is getting rave reviews more than halfway to the moon.

The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon.

NASA granted KPRC 2’s Gage Goulding rare access inside Mission Control at Johnson Space Center as the Artemis II crew travels toward the moon, offering a firsthand look at the team responsible for guiding the historic mission.

The Artemis II astronauts have captured Earth's brilliant blue beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

Frenchie’s Italian Restaurant, a longtime favorite of astronauts and NASA staff, is seeing increased activity, with owner Frankie Camera hopeful that the Artemis program will restore enthusiasm and prosperity to the area.

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts have fired their engines and are blazing toward the moon.

Four astronauts have embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon, humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century.

It’s humanity’s first flight to the moon since 1972.

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are preparing to travel beyond low-Earth orbit and return to the Moon.

Four Astronauts, one Mission, 230,000 Miles

The countdown has begun toward humanity’s first launch to the moon in 53 years.

The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.

The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century have arrived at their launch site.

NASA's moon rocket is back at the launch pad following hangar repairs.

NASA is revamping its Artemis moon landing program.

NASA plans to roll the Artemis II rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building after high winds and cold temperatures halted launch pad work at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s new moon rocket has suffered another setback, with astronauts’ lunar trip now off until spring.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is finally at the launch pad.

According to NASA’s website, the selected candidates will undergo nearly two years of training before they become flight-eligible astronauts for agency missions to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars.

According to its website, NASA is seeking “volunteers to passively track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft as the crewed mission travels to the Moon and back to Earth."

NASA and the White House say an international astronaut will be invited on a future moon landing.

The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon for the first time in 50 years have met with President Joe Biden at the White House.

NASA on Monday introduced the astronauts who will travel around the moon.

NASA named three Americans and one Canadian to the Artemis II crew during a ceremony in Houston Monday.

NASA will host a briefing at 10 a.m. to preview the upcoming Artemis I lunar mission.