NASA is going back to the moon more than a half-century after Apollo.

NASA’s Artemis II successfully launched on April 1, with its crew on a 10-day mission to circle the Moon.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so, so excited to be able to tell you that for the first time since 1972 during Apollo 17, human beings have left Earth orbit," NASA's Lori Glaze announced at a news confer...