NASA is testing a new deep space rocket model. | Vocativ

The Path to the Moon - Artemis II Rollout from VAB to Launchpad: On January 17, 2026, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. This marks a definitive milestone for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the lunar vicinity in over half a century. Carried by the massive Crawler-Transporter 2, the 322-foot-tall vehicle completed its four-mile journey to Launch Pad 39B. The move, while slow,

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday, August 26, launched its giant Starship rocket for a tenth test flight aiming to overcome development setbacks and clinch long-sought technical milestones key to the Mars rocket's reusable design. The towering 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off around 7:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase facilities in south Texas on a mission to test the ship's new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. The rocket