NASA's next-generation "mega moon rocket" on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA NASA's next-generation "mega moon rocket" on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.NASA / NASA The images, tweeted on Thursday, March 24, show the rocket — topped with the new...
Yvonne Y. Clark, known as Y.Y. throughout her career, had a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements as a Black female mechanical engineer. In the third episode of the third season of the Lost Women of Science podcast, we see how Y.Y.’s brilliance helped
This event special charts the extraordinary inside story of NASA engineers as they race to build and launch the world’s biggest rocket – Artemis I The Artemis missions will transport humans – including the first woman – to the moon, then launch our amazing journey to Mars, and beyond. As...
Neil Armstrong made history when he stepped onto the moon. Then some of the dust he carried back vanished.
The world is about to see@NASA’s Moon rocket roll to the launch pad for testing.#ArtemisI will be a test flight for future crewed missions to the Moon. We are going. 🚀pic.twitter.com/Ic3uLQew9S — NASA Artemis (@NASAArtemis)March 14, 2022 ...
astronauts back to the Moon. Despite being cut short, NASA said the test of the RS-25 engines had provided valuable information for the planned missions. "Saturday's test was an important step forward to ensure that the core stage of the SLS rocket is ready for the Artemis I mission, ...
NASA fires up Artemis 1 moon rocket's first-stage engines again NASA's Space Launch System rocket being readied for rollout ahead of its test flight to the moon later this year.(Image credit: NASA) NASA appears to have ironed out the kinks with the core-stage engines of the Space Launch...
Artemis 2 is the second scheduled flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed Artemis mission that will send four astronauts around the moon.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago. ...
The Space Launch System rocket that will propel an uncrewed Orion capsuleto the moon in the Artemis 1 missionis the most powerful rocket NASA has ever built. It weighs 5.75 million pounds when fully fueled for launch, yet will climb nearly 500 feet straight up in just seven seconds. ...