NASA's Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket will eventually carry astronauts back to the moon by 2025. Facebook Twitter Email Copy to clipboard Copy to clipboard Live Now All times eastern NOW - 2:30 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM 4:00 PM ...
America is heading back to the moon. Overnight, the most powerful rocket yet built with a crew-less capsule sitting on top, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Artemis 1 mission represents the first step toward putting humans back on the moon and eventually on Mars....
NASA initially hauled the Artemis 1 SLS out to pad 39B on March 18 for a tanking test on April 3, but trouble with ground equipment triggered a one-day delay. Then the team ran into a gaseous nitrogen shortage, liquid oxygen temperature issues and trouble with an upper stage helium valve....
NASA has said it plans to have a woman and a person of color be among the first astronauts to land on the moon in future Artemis missions. NASA is waiting until this mission is over before introducing the astronauts who ...
Artemis 1 is an uncrewed test flight to the Moon and back. It leads the way as the first crew-ready spacecraft to visit the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission back in December of 1972. The Orion capsule does not have any human passengers on this flight. However, it i...
Blastoff! NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket launches on the historic first mission. NASA Space Launch System rocket launched the Artemis 1 mission on Nov. 16, 2022. The rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
NASA launches most powerful rocket ever, Artemis 1, on a mission to kickstart return to moonThe Artemis moon mission launches from Kennedy Space Center at Florida's Cape Canaveral after several postponements because of unsuitable conditions.
as the Artemis I launch team conducts the wet dress rehearsal test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Ahead of NASA’s Artemis I flight test, the wet dress rehearsal will run the Artemis I launch team through operations to load propellant, conduct a full launch countdown, demonstrat...
NEA Scout is composed of a small, shoebox-sized CubeSat (top left) and a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a racquetball court (bottom left). After the spacecraft launches aboard Artemis I, the sail will use sunlight to propel the CubeSat to a small asteroid (as depicte...
NASA said: "Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson has called a scrub of the attempt of the launch of Artemis 1. "The issue that came up was an engine bleed which couldn't be remedied, but the rocket is currently in a stable configuration. ...