NASA is defending its recently announced all-male crew for Artemis III, despite its designation as the “twin sister” of the Apollo missions.

NASA on Tuesday named three U.S. astronauts ⁠and ⁠an Italian astronaut as the crew ⁠for its next Artemis mission, a docking demonstration involving three spacecraft in Earth's ​orbit and planned for n...

The mission will test in-orbit docking with commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin.