NASA stacked the Artemis II Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System rocket at Kennedy Space Center this week ahead of ...

Despite the Trump administration's government shutdown, NASA employees are hard at work. They've just finished installing the ...

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon ...

The towering rocket tasked with launching NASA's next moon astronauts on their historic lunar journey has come together.

NASA’s Artemis II: A critical test mission The Artemis II mission is NASA’s first crewed test flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. It will carry four astronauts on a 10-day journey around ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

All of the original US senators who created and sustained NASA’s Space Launch System rocket over the last 15 years—Bill Nelson, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Richard Shelby—have either retired or failed ...

The Orion spacecraft flying humanity's next crewed mission to the moon has completed propellant loading and is headed to the next phase of launch preparations. Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA has raised the tantalizing prospect of launching its Artemis II moon mission several months earlier than expected. It means that in February — just five months from now — a crew of four ...

NASA has cleared the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy launch vehicle for human-rated flight ahead of next year's Artemis II mission, which will send a human crew into lunar orbit for the first time in ...