Splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday near San Diego, the Artemis II mission came to a successful conclusion.

Mr. Ley, who fled Germany during the rise of the Nazi party and settled in New York, has a crater on the moon named after him.

Elon Musk during President Trump’s inauguration parade held last month inside Capital One Arena in Washington. Mr. Musk’s political activities and reduced presence at Tesla are stirring dissatisfaction within the company.

Dennis Overbye, The New York Times’s “cosmic affairs correspondent,” during a visit to The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in 2011.

Elon Musk epitomizes a new generation of tech leaders who often have a right-wing ideology and favor fewer constraints on entrepreneurship.

An image released by the Chinese National Space Administration shows the Chang’e-6 mission’s lander-ascender after it raised a small Chinese flag and before it returned a sample of far-side lunar soil to Earth. The photograph was made by a small rover released by the lander.

A new view of the Odysseus lander during the final moments of its landing on the moon on Thursday.

The United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket on its way to the space launch complex at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday.