The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

NASA engineers have hot-fired the redesigned Artemis moon rocket in preparation for future Space Launch System (SLS) flights that will take humanity back to the moon and beyond. The test of the RS-25 ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

NASA’s Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA. A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the ...

American space agency NASA conducted a full rehearsal of the launch day procedures for the Artemis II mission scheduled to ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...