NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Despite the White House's desire to cancel the Space Launch System, the Artemis program's primary launch vehicle, NASA ...

NASA Will Try to Launch Moon Rocket After 2 Scrubs and 2 Hurricanes. Sending the Artemis I mission to space has so far eluded the agency, but it’s set to try again in the early hours of Wednesday.

Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s rocket at the heart of its Artemis program is “unaffordable,” a report from the US Government Accountability Office says.

If all goes well with Artemis 1, NASA plans to launch a second SLS rocket in late 2024 to boost four astronauts on a looping free-return trajectory around the moon before landing the first woman ...

NASA's historic moon mission blasts off 01:32. In a jaw-dropping spectacle, the 322-foot-tall Artemis moon rocket, the most powerful ever built for NASA, finally blasted off Wednesday with an ...

NASA plans to test launch its newest rocket next week — one it hopes will eventually take astronauts back to the moon. But the rocket's big price tag has some critics skeptical about its future.

NASA’s big moon rocket rolled out to the launching pad for the third time — and it actually is slated to launch to the moon. For once, NASA is ahead of schedule.

NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program.

Chinese rocket designers have said the country's new rocket for sending astronauts to the moon could be ready for a test flight in 2027. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

An image of NASA's Mega Moon rocket as it rolled out to the launch pad for the first time in March, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) It's got powerful engines.

Senior NASA officials say that the agency’s Space Launch System — the massive rocket designed to propel its ambitious Artemis program to establish a base on the moon — is “unaffordable ...