Republican and Democratic lawmakers have backed Orion for two decades, the SLS rocket for 15 years, and the Gateway for 10 years. Will they finally give up programs that have been such a reliable ...

The days of NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion space capsule may be limited, as a White House budget proposal for the space agency aims to phase out the overbudget SLS after just two ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon ...

In November 2022, NASA launched the uncrewed Artemis I to the moon, and it was a test of the Orion’s and SLS’s systems and hardware. In July 2024, the 212-foot-tall rocket’s SLS core stage ...

NASA’s biggest obstacle to progress is its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and conjoined Orion capsule. This huge, Apollo-style program was intended to carry US astronauts back to the moon.

Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket core stage was fitted with 4 RS-25 engines at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Footage courtesy: NASA/Evan Deroche/Steven Seipel/Eric ...

including its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, moves that raise questions about the agency’s future amid growing technical capabilities in the private sector. Things began ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. Rocket Lab's Electron will launch Aspera, a cubesat being ...

A late-night weekend rocket launch in beautiful, breezy, springtime Florida? That's the (potential) plan! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth ...