NASA’s Artemis II mission is carrying out critical tests in deep space, but a lighter tradition is capturing attention online as fans track the crew’s progress by tuning in for their daily wake-up ...

Every day in space, the Artemis II crew is awoken to a song played by mission control in Houston. On the first day of the mission, it was “Sleepyhead,” a cover of a Passion Pit song by the solo artist ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with the Artemis II astronauts on April 8, covering topics ranging from their lessons on teamwork to their favorite songs to wake up to in space.

The first American astronauts went into space in 1961, but they were only in space for a couple of minutes, so there was no need to wake them up. There would be longer spaceflights soon after that, ...