Christina Koch

President Donald Trump turned a touching tribute to a NASA astronaut’s late wife into a chance to talk about himself during a speech at Houston’s Johnson Space Center

The massive image dump, uploaded over the weekend to NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth archive, includes 12,217 high-resolution photos captured by the four-member crew and onboard systems aboard the Orion spacecraft

The Artemis II crew, following their return to Earth after a historic 10-day lunar flyby, spoke with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, describing the mission as a "glorious" experience

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman also stood alongside the astronauts

They shared two daughters whose anxieties and fears over their father’s journey ended with his safe splashdown late last week

Christina Koch, a 47-year-old mission specialist on NASA’s Artemis II flight, posted a series of clips showing the moment she arrived home and was greeted at the door by her dog, Sadie

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen returned from their 10-day lunar mission on Friday, flying farther from Earth than any human has before

Jim Lovell orbited the moon in 1968

Jim Lovell orbited the moon in 1968

When NASA returns to the lunar surface with Artemis IV, currently scheduled for 2028, it is almost certain that a female astronaut will be part of that crew

The crew of four arrived at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Centre and Mission Control, flying in from San Diego, where they splashed down just offshore the evening before

Following an expected but nerve-wracking communications blackout during their high-stakes re-entry, Wiseman's voice triggered relief that the astronauts were well on their way back home

Artemis II astronauts share they watched Ryan Gosling's Project Hail Mary before taking off

To convey the play of sunlight on craters, for example, he invoked an earthly sunrise, “when we behold the valleys, not yet flooded with light, but the mountains surrounding them on the side opposite to the Sun already ablaze with the splendour of his beams.”

For 10 days, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have sought to make real NASA’s credo of doing near-impossible things

The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including white-knuckling through liftoff on April 1 as their rocket burned through millions of gallons of fuel and braving perilous fields of radiation en route to the moon

It was the first time hearing from the team since they spoke after their historic lunar flyby that saw them travel further from Earth than any other humans

The tendrils of Christina Koch’s flyaway hair swirled about in the gravityless cockpit of the Orion spacecraft, seeming to represent all of the untetheredness of the Artemis II mission

The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week

The crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched atop the massive Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026

The astronauts hurtling back from the moon face the gravest danger of their journey in its final 15 minutes, when they’ll scorch through the atmosphere relying on a 7.5 centimetre-thick heat shield that failed during its last test

After wake‑up, controllers will brief the four astronauts — Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — on weather at the splashdown zone, then clear them to secure loose gear and climb into their pressure suits

The crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched atop the massive Space Launch System rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026

US President Donald Trump personally connected with astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis mission as they circled the Moon

Carroll Taylor Wiseman spent her life caring for sick children and babies

NASA on Tuesday released a historic image of Earth dipping below the lunar horizon, more than 57 years after an iconic "Earthrise" image was captured by an Apollo 8 astronaut

Inside the compact Orion spacecraft, where four astronauts share a volume barely larger than a camper van, this was no minor inconvenience

A photo taken inside NASA’s mission control during the Artemis II launch has gone viral online after social media users noticed one details—the room appears to be staffed mostly by women

Artemis II astronauts watched Ryan Gosling’s Project Hail Mary before heading to Moon

Roughly four minutes before breaking the record at approximately 252,752 miles (about 402,000 kilometers) from Earth, a clearly labeled Nutella jar drifted slowly across the frame in zero gravity, rotating gently with its label facing the camera in what many called a perfectly framed "product shot."

Nasa reconnects with Moon-flying Orion crew after expected radio silence

The roughly three-minute conversation, streamed from the White House and NASA feeds, captured Trump addressing Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen as their capsule sailed more than 252,000 miles from Earth — surpassing the Apollo 13 mark set in 1970

The images, which show the two astronauts gazing back at the planet through Orion's window, feel both futuristic and strangely intimate — a moon mission captured through the same front-facing camera millions of people use every day

Donald Trump has faced sharp criticism after threatening to wipe out Iran’s power plants and bridges in an expletive-riddled social media post yesterday

This means Artemis II will travel about 6,602km (4,105 miles) further into space than any human in history

The Artemis II crew’s 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule has a waste management-related problem that arose in the early hours of Saturday as Day 3 was winding down

In a moment that feels both historic and deeply human, NASA has released a striking image of the Moon taken by the Artemis II crew as they journey around Earth's closest celestial neighbour

Attracting millions of likes on social media, the images show the two bodies from unusual angles in glorious high definition

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon

And when the moon is between the spacecraft and Earth, the astronauts will be completely incommunicado for 30 to 50 minutes

On Thursday, Orion’s service module fired its main engine for nearly six minutes in a precisely timed maneuver known as a translunar injection burn

Libération and Les Échos report an improving outlook in Kyiv, despite four years of bombing and devastation

Later imagery showed a clear gap at the heart of what had been one of Iran’s premier infrastructure projects