Watch how the Space Launch System rocket RS-25 undergoes a core stage engine test-fire. Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

"We want to get to Mars. We don't want to stop there." Artemis II astronauts talk Moon and future Mars missions at SXSW 2025.

rocket that powers the Artemis Moon exploration program. Artemis I, for instance, which took off back in 2022, did so thanks to a SLS powered by four RS-25 engines. All of them had already been ...

NASA received the upper stage for the agency’s Artemis II Space Launch System rocket on March 9 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

NASA's Artemis program aims to use the ... is being held down by the forces produced by the rocket. But when we get to microgravity, when the engines cut off at the right time, we'll start to ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

The setback could potentially delay NASA's Artemis III human moon landing ... Texas, the Ship (the rocket's upper stage) lost ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDRE) have the potential to ... Modern rockets such as the NASA Artemis—with a mission to explore the Moon for scientific discovery and to learn how to ...