Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket core stage was fitted with 4 RS-25 engines at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New ...

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 ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together major elements of the rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission with the first humans to the moon in more ...

The giant rocket that will launch humanity's next crewed moon mission is coming together across the southern United States. NASA plans to launch its Artemis 2 mission, which will send four ...

The first human mission to the moon in half ... These two solid rocket boosters will help heft the 322-foot (98-meter) SLS to space, along with the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 crew.

rocket to send an unpiloted Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule on a looping flight around the moon and back. NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a ...

NASA and the Department of Defense (DoD) teamed up June 11 and 12 to simulate emergency procedures they would use to rescue ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis 2 at the ... to the Moon and back without actually landing on the lunar surface (that’s the job of Artemis 3). NASA’s Artemis ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion.

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.