NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a three-man one-woman crew on the first piloted Orion flight, a shakedown mission to test the spacecraft's life support, propulsion and other systems in Earth orbit before pressing ahead for...
And then a few days later, we saw SpaceX blow up a rocket and completely shred its launch platform in the process. Or maybe it was the other way around, because it looks like the concrete thrown up by the exhaust may have run into the engines, causing the damage that would lead to ...
The agency announced today (July 20) that it has three "placeholder" launch dates forthe uncrewed test flight around the moon: Aug. 29, Sept. 2 and Sept. 5. "It's not an agency commitment," Jim Free, NASA's associate administrator of exploration systems, said of the interim launch dat...
But before all that happens, the space agency has to test its equipment with the flight of Artemis 1, which will break records of its own. As NASA’s massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket sitson the launch padahead of this historic mission, here’s what you need to know about...
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Final work continues to prepare the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Artemis I. Teams have identified placeholder dates for potential launch opportunities. They include: August 29 at 8:33 a.m.EDT(Two-hour launch window); Landing Oc...
Launch dates in late September / early October Crew-5 is planned for October 3. Moving that back a few days would be possible - the weather might do that anyway - but moving it more would need more changes to the ISS schedule. There is another certification limit: It can only go back...
SLS engines and its solid-rocket boosters are set to ignite at 8:33 a.m. EDT (1233 GMT) on Monday, sending the spacecraft streaking skyward. Should the countdown be delayed beyond the two-hour window targeted for liftoff, NASA has set Sept. 2 and Sept. 5 ...
In other words, it's hard to break out an actual cost while the launch dates for both Artemis II and III keep slipping. NASA's own Inspector General estimates the cost ofjust the SLS/Orion portionof a moon landing at $4.1 billion. ...