American space agency NASA said the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II mission are now fully integrated, countdown test to follow.

The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night, ready to be ...

Artemis II will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the Moon no earlier than 2026.

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As NASA advances toward the highly anticipated Artemis II mission, preparations for the first crewed journey around the Moon ...

People who have the right to step inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center are treated these days to an impressive sight: the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying on ...

RS-25 prime contractor L3Harris continues to ramp up production of new flight engine hardware at their Los Angeles area facility and final assembly at the Stennis Space Center. NASA certified ...

In the leaked memo reported by Audrey Decker at Politico, SpaceX will be ready to land humans on the Moon in September 2028, more than a year after the mid-2027 goal of NASA. Before that, Starship ...

The Orion stack sits on top of a piece called "Spacecraft Adapter" (SA). Among other things, it encapsulates the [European] Service Module's ([E]SM's) various nozzles, and provides them with standoff ...