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NASA's Space Launch System rocket, reflected in the turn basin at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rolls out for a fourth attempt at a wet dress rehearsal on June 6, 2022. Credit: Trevor ...
Is returning a veteran astronaut to the same runway on a next-generation vehicle the break of a new dawn in human spaceflight? There was anticipation in the air on July 26, 2025, at Kennedy Space ...
NASA’s Space Launch System has been under development for decades. Here are the stories to read as the rocket makes its big debut: carrying the Orion capsule to space as part of the Artemis 1 ...
The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.
Here’s how it works. The Artemis 1 Orion capsule, seen on the right, and its launch abort system on the left, inside a NASA facility in July 2021.(Image credit: NASA) ...
An artist's conception of the Space Launch System at Cape Kennedy. NASA NASA on Thursday completed the eighth and final “green run” test of the core stage for the biggest rocket ever built ...
The Space Launch System likely will not fly for the next 30 years. It will serve, instead, as a monument to how not to go back to the moon or anywhere else.
The Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS) is seen atop an Apollo-era crawler transporter and new mobile launcher on its first rollout to the launchpad on March 17, 2022. (Image credit: ...
On Thursday, NASA’s new giant rocket, the Space Launch System, emerged out into the Florida air, embarking on a torturously slow 11-hour journey to its primary launchpad at Kennedy Space Center.
After years of preparation and two false starts, NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System has finally taken off and entered orbit. It’s a big win for the space agency — even as it assigns to ...
Signed by the current Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, NASA Headquarters released a plan that calls for creating a new position, the Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who would oversee this ...