The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander ...

Colorado-based space firm Lunar Outpost's Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, or MAPP, launched aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend. The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed ...

The Artemis II astronauts, as well as folks following the mission preparations, will be pleased to learn that NASA recently lifted the SLS rocket’s ... around the moon in 2022.

Credit: NASA/Kuner In 2022 the first stage, Artemis I, saw the test of a new rocket and uncrewed lunar module called Orion sent around the moon and back to Earth again. Artemis II, due to launch ...

The lander, called Blue Ghost, launched to orbit on a SpaceX rocket in January, spent some time in Earth’s orbit and had been maneuvering toward the moon ever since. • Firefly has become only ...

among other cargo. The most intriguing lander is the one planned by Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos. The lander, known as Blue Moon Mark 1, will be the largest spacecraft ...

This is the upper stage that will head toward orbit, and ultimately could carry people to the moon or even Mars. In six tests before the seventh flight, SpaceX demonstrated that the rocket’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 ...