NASA appears to be walking back its pledge to land the first woman and person of color on the moon as part of the Trump administration’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives from federal agencies.

President Trump might be tackling DEI programs here on Earth, but all bets are off when it comes to outer space. Despite the president’s detailed executive order that compels all federal agencies to ...

NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in February.

NASA’s plans to return to the moon continue to highlight goals of landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface even amid the agency’s recent shutdown of diversity, equity and ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program. Updated pages as of Friday for the program no longer feature the statement: ...

Nearly four years ago, NASA announced that its Artemis III mission would include a lot of firsts: it would be the first to land on the moon since the end of the Apollo era, the first to touch down ...