The White House plan to kill the cutting-edge Orion spacecraft, shown here, and the Space Launch System super-rocket could halt NASA's ability to land astronauts on the Moon in the late 2020s, even as ...

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 ...

If there's one thing astronauts know, it's "practice, practice, practice." The next astronauts headed to the moon are preparing for all contingencies as their mission approaches, and they recently ...

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 solid rocket boosters for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage are readied in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 25, 2025. Engineers ...

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 ...

Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 could be used to launch Crew Dragon to LEO, followed by a crew transfer to HLS/Starship for the lunar leg instead of using SLS and Orion. However, for long-term sustainability and ...