The crew will replace a team that evacuated the space station due to a medical emergency in January.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino joins TODAY to give context and provide insight into the unprecedented evacuation of Crew-11 from space after a medical emergency. Massimino ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II, astronauts will be able to take modern smartphones to space.

Astronauts will now be able to bring modern smartphones on space missions, according to a tweet this week from NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. Isaacman said the policy will begin with SpaceX Crew-12 and Artemis II.

Until now, NASA prohibited personal devices because they had to pass extremely strict protocols on issues such as fire risk.

For the moon orbit, astronauts of Artemis 2 mission will be allowed to take modern smartphones for the first time. NASA is thus loosening long-standing rules.