(KWQC) - A new congressional bill aims to improve fisheries and environmental quality in the Mississippi River basin with a federally funded commission. “This is a bill that’s way past its due ...

The unofficial start of the Mississippi River navigation season has begun. The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges. Reaching Hasting ...

The Artemis mission hit a milestone in January in the assembly of the rocket with the stacking of the twin booster's right forward segment at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The forward ...

“Everything that has to do with the river affects Vicksburg,” said Mayor George Flaggs Jr., co-chair of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI), a nonprofit organization ...

SLS will launch NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly four astronauts ... fully stacked vehicle through the first stage of launch. Each booster stands 177 feet (54 meters) tall, and together they ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

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 ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love with New Orleans jazz music, Delta blues and the deep South. We board our Viking river cruise ship at the ...

It is the single largest element for NASA’s Artemis II mission ... teams inside the VAB connected the core stage to each booster at forward and aft load-bearing attach points.

The center produces key research about ecological trends on the upper Mississippi River basin and elsewhere in the Midwest and the world. Two former scientists who were fired said the terminations ...