The towering rocket tasked with launching NASA's next moon astronauts on their historic lunar journey has come together. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being stacked for the Artemis 2 mission ...

The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft, are now exploring the possibility of launching Orion on rockets other than the Space Launch System (SLS). This consideration ...

Artemis II is scheduled to send four astronauts on an approximately 10-day journey that will loop around the Moon and return ...

The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night, ready to be ...

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 ...

Technicians with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team use a crane to lift and secure NASA's Orion spacecraft on top of the ...

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big rocket lifts, the smaller spacecraft flies, and Congress keeps the money ...

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside ...

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 ...

Agency officials are eyeing a February 5 launch for the mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon, but can they actually stick to this aggressive timeline? Reading time 3 minutes The ...