Orion's interior space is equivalent to that of two minivans, NASA says. That's a lot more breathing room than space capsules of the 1960s and '70s..

NASA's Artemis II crew prepares for a historic lunar flyby aboard the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket, traveling farther into space than any humans since Apollo.

Earth’s gravity will accelerate the returning spacecraft to a blistering 25,000 mph (7 miles per second). The crew will endure a fiery, bumpy plunge through the atmosphere before a scheduled April 10 splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

Artemis II, NASA's first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, represents a shift from short visits toward sustained exploration, where understanding lunar geology and resources becomes as important as the engineering that gets astronauts there.

NASA's Artemis 2 mission will send astronauts around the moon, paving the way for future lunar landings. See how it compares to Apollo 8.

In 1967, as three astronauts performed a test ahead of the first crewed mission to space, a fire sparked inside the Apollo spacecraft. Unable to exit quickly, the three astronauts died. The Apollo 1 tragedy shook the nation and led to changes in the industry to ensure something like that couldn’t happen again.

In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo spacecraft into orbit. The video is available in over 20 languages; you can change the audio track language in the Settings menu.