NASA integrates Orion stage adapter with Artemis II rocket, advancing plans for the first crewed lunar mission.

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 ...

The last time a human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit came aboard the final Apollo mission over 50 years ago. And it’s been eight years since NASA debuted Artemis, the U.S. space agency’s program ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA managers agreed to blast off the SLS rocket for the first time early Wednesday morning after agency engineers navigated through several challenges during fueling. The launch of the SLS rocket is ...