The endeavor will involve the Orion spacecraft carrying its first crew toward the moon after being launched by NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The Orion will come within 80 miles of the ...

Three launch systems and two landers from Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are all part of the complicated puzzle of NASA’s ...

when NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, on its first flight, powered the uncrewed Orion capsule to space in a crucial test of its onboard systems. Five days later, Orion made its first ...

As a new administration looms, NASA's Artemis II SLS moon rocket is ready for stacking inside the VAB. The goal is a 2026 ...

SLS is a big rocket. The first stage measures ... Down the road at KSC Headquarters, the Orion spacecraft for Artemis II is completed and being prepared. In the coming months those pieces will ...

Artemis missions use the SLS as a launch rocket for the Orion spacecraft, which carries astronauts. Introduced in 2011, the SLS, larger and more powerful than the Saturn V rockets that took Apollo ...

With that decision in place, the machine of getting the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft ready for launch have already begun moving. With the core stage standing upright for the first time ...