NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

NASA's Artemis program represents the most ambitious human spaceflight effort since Apollo, aiming not only to return ...

While 2025 saw a record number of launches —including crewed exploration, science missions, and even an historic first ...

NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.

NASA is bringing nuclear energy to the moon. According to internal agency documents obtained by Politico in August 2025, Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy looks to place a 100-kilowatt nuclear ...

Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

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

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket ...

Artemis II will mark humanity's first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The approximately 10-day ...

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

On Dec. 20, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen emerged ...