Few places in the solar system are better suited to a balloon than Titan. The combination of low gravity and high atmospheric ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket completed another milestone on its way to launch with the Umbilical Release and Retract Test (URRT). The URRT was performed on the rocket on September 19 ...

On this mission, an SLS space rocket launched an uncrewed Orion space capsule on a path out past the moon and then back to ...

Exactly when the first SLS mission will launch is still ambiguous. What is clear is there has been about a month of schedule loss in the last half of 2018, and that a Spring 2021 launch of ...

As a new administration looms, NASA's Artemis II SLS moon rocket is ready for stacking inside the VAB. The goal is a 2026 ...

Although the SLS is intended for use in crewed missions, the Artemis mission to send humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since 1972 has suffered numerous delays. The rocket consists ...

NASA’s SLS rocket has flown only once to date, in the Artemis I mission in 2022 that was essentially an uncrewed rehearsal for the upcoming Artemis II mission. The SLS is at the center of NASA ...

During “Exploration Mission 1”, the SLS is only responsible for getting the Orion, its Service Module, and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) into orbit around the Earth ...

Three launch systems and two landers from Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are all part of the complicated puzzle of NASA’s ...

mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen. The core stage booster of SLS towered over the crew as they spoke to reporters Monday. Meanwhile the ...