NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is the only vehicle in the current U.S. fleet designed to send astronauts beyond low Earth ...

The biggest remaining piece of the architecture, therefore, is a lunar lander. Known in NASA parlance as the Human Landing ...

NASA engineers manage propulsion systems and space communications to maintain Artemis II’s schedule, ensuring the Orion spacecraft and crew remain connected from launch to splashdown.

NASA’s Artemis II rocket, the vehicle designed to carry astronauts around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, ...

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...

An update is coming today on NASA's Artemis 2 lunar mission to launch four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon. Now, amid ongoing repairs to NASA's Space Launch System rocket designed ...

NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket is about to depart the launch pad in Florida where it has been vertical for more than a month in anticipation of the first U.S. human lunar mission in ...

Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites — some decades past design life — struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...

The four astronauts preparing to end a five-decade gap in crewed lunar flights will have to wait until at least April before they can begin the Artemis II mission. During the SLS rocket’s second wet ...

AND THEN JAIL. DEPUTIES SAY HE HAS A LENGTHY CRIMINAL HISTORY. NEW TODAY FROM THE SPACE COAST. NASA SAYS CREWS HAVE FIXED A HELIUM ISSUE ON THE UPPER STAGE OF ITS MOON ROCKET. THE ISSUE FORCED THEM TO ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts’ first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest ...