Meet the Press broadcast from Cape Kennedy space center and welcomed the three NASA astronauts who commanded Apollo missions 8, 9 and 10 ahead of the historic launch of Apollo 11, which would land Americans on the moon.

Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, is beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil ...

On Wednesday, NASA launched Artemis II. To celebrate, CBS 8 shares a News 8 Throwback from back in 1969 when Apollo 11 actually landed on the moon.

The Artemis II mission, which launched April 1 from Florida, got the greenlight to begin its lunar journey after a day or orbiting high above Earth.

Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again.

In the same way that Artemis II serves as the first crewed flight to test technology for future missions to the moon and Mars, Apollo 8, which launched on Dec. 21, 1968, also served as a lunar landing preparation mission, preceding Apollo 11's July 1969 lunar landing.

NASA’s Artemis II launch from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday marked humanity’s first lunar voyage since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. But it seems its crew — which c