As soon as the morning of 29 August, the largest rocket to ever fly will lift off from Nasa’s launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The Artemis I mission, the first flight of Nasa’s ...

Artemis—the goddess of the hunt in Greek mythology—is the twin sister of Apollo, the god of the sun. But when it comes to their respective NASA programs, the difference between the two couldn’t be ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Nearly 50 years after the last moon mission, NASA has big plans to return. Now, they have the big rocket to match. The agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket made its ...

As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans to the Moon ...

NASA has reached a significant milestone in its Artemis program with the successful integration of the Orion spacecraft atop ...

American space agency NASA and Lockheed Martin announced the mating of the Orion spaceship to the Space Launch System (SLS) ...

Fifty years after the last astronaut left the moon, the United States is preparing to return to the lunar surface with the successful launch of Artemis I early Wednesday with a new rocket that is the ...

It noted that the Apollo program launched the Saturn V rocket every four months, and the space shuttle flew on average every three months over a span of three decades. But because the SLS is so ...

The capsule: The Orion capsule atop SLS can hold four crew members compared to the Apollo capsule’s three. It has the familiar cone shape as previous capsules, but inside are what NASA says are ...