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The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

SLS will launch NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly four astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft around the moon and back sometime next year. "Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked ...

The program's first crewed lunar landing is penciled in for the Artemis III mission, again using SLS and Orion, but adding a new piece: SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket will be used as a human ...

NASA successfully completed a major milestone for the Artemis II mission with the integration of the core stage of the Space ...

The program’s first crewed lunar landing is penciled in for the Artemis III mission, again using SLS and Orion, but adding a new piece: SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket will be used as a ...

While SpaceX’s in-development Starship has since surpassed that liftoff thrust, SLS remains the most-powerful rocket to ever send a payload into orbit. That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I ...

He said instead of NASA footing the bill for the complicated SLS rocket, the agency should able to buy heavy-lift services to send payloads to the moon. To date, only the uncrewed Artemis I ...

For example, for the Artemis IV mission, NASA plans to use the SLS Block 1B configuration, which is 366 feet tall compared to the 322-foot Block 1 configuration being used for the Artemis II mission.