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— SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket failure forces NASA to evaluate astronaut launch schedule for ISS "It also allows us to put two crew missions pretty close together, back-to-back, and see where we are if we need to do that," he added. "So I think it's it's neat to have a backup capab...
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that speeding up production of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is absolutely essential to getting humans to the moon by 2024.
Across two Electron launches in 2024, Rocket Lab will deploy NASA’s PREFIRE mission to study naturally occurring radiation at the Arctic to better understand its impact on melting glaciers, sea ice, clouds and water, and climate modelling and forecastin
At a briefing for reporters, NASA executives said there were no specific, major difficulties slowing their schedule, but rather a higher-than-usual volume of technical hurdles to clear in preparing a large, complex rocket system for its very first launch. "It's really what...
Feeding into that assessment is the recent delay in delivering the SLS core stage to KSC because the “Green Run” hot fire test had to berun a second time. That affects the schedule for integrating the core stage with the rest of the SLS components, including solid rocket bo...
The three will be launched into space by the biggest rocket of all time, the Boeing-led Space Launch System (SLS), which is currently under development but has seen numerous delays and has been criticized in some quarters as a bloated jobs program. ...
On October 16th, the Atlas 5-401 carrier rocket of the United Launch Alliance launched NASA's Lucy asteroid probe from the Cape Canaveral Space Station. The rocket ignited and took off at 5:34 Eastern Time (17:34 Beijing Time). The separation of the weap
NASA launched the Artemis program'sfirst test flight, Artemis 1, in November 2022, using the agency's powerful Space Launch System heavy lift rocket to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a flight around the moon and back. NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the...
audit work identified significant delays in other major programs essential to a lunar landing, including the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule. Moreover, delays related to lunar lander development and the recently decided lander contract award bid protests will also preclude a 2024 landing...