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

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

The cone-shaped Orion spacecraft, resembling an enlarged Apollo Command Module, will be launched by the SLS and carry four astronauts into lunar orbit to rendezvous with a lunar lander.

Update: This story has been updated to reflect a move in the launch date. Currently listed as launching no earlier than 1 a.m ...

SLS is a big rocket. The first stage measures ... it was High Bay 2 which saw the stacking of the Saturn V rocket which took the Apollo astronauts to the moon. During the Space Shuttle era it ...

Introduced in 2011, the SLS, larger and more powerful than the Saturn V rockets that took Apollo missions to the moon, “is a super heavy-lift rocket … for human exploration beyond Earth orbit ...

NASA put its Orion spacecraft to the test ahead of its planned journey to the Moon. The space agency simulated the extreme conditions the capsule may experience during a launch abort scenario when it ...

The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and the debut of a new rocket.

The SLS? Canceled. The Orion capsule ... establish the permanent settlement Musk envisions. It will be more like Apollo or even Lewis and Clark: a brief, symbolic and scientific visit to prove ...

That said, the SLS and Orion have long enjoyed strong support from Congress—a key reason why Artemis is the only U.S. moon program since Apollo to have survived largely intact across two ...

NASA’s new mobile launcher under construction at Kennedy Space Center to support future Artemis moon missions grew up a little in the new year. Lead contractor Bechtel National Inc. on Friday ...