The first Artemis mission, carried by NASA's new mega-rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System) — the most powerful launcher ever built — has been delayed yet again. This is the latest in a series ...

Years late and billions over budget, NASA's new moon rocket makes its debut in a high-stakes test flight before astronauts get on top. The 322-foot (98-metre) rocket will attempt to send an empty ...

The rocket travels at speeds of up to 20,000 miles (30,000km) an hour. Its job is to send crew capsules and other equipment on a 380,000km (240,000 mile) journey from Earth to the Moon.

NASA's new moon rocket, as seen from a marina on Florida's Merritt Island, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on Nov. 16. Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Technicians prepare a rocket piece for the Artemis 2 mission on Nov. 18, 2024.

Nasa’s Space Launch System, or SLS, is the largest rocket constructed since the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo program. Hitching a ride inside the Orion stage adapter of the Space Launch System rocket ...

It was a nail-biter, but NASA finally got the first rocket in its Artemis mission off the ground. The rocket lifted off at 1:47 a.m. ET, lighting up the early morning sky in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System booster rocket sit, ready, at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B. After weathering Hurricane Nicole last week, Artemis 1 has been deemed ready for ...