NASA's Giant New Moon Rocket Is Finally on Launch Pad
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NASA’s SLS and Orion rolled to the launch pad for the Artemis 2 mission Jan. 17, though uncertainty remains about when the mission will be ready to launch.
The Artemis II rocket and spacecraft rolled out from the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on Saturday. The 11-million-pound Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion Spacecraft had to move just four miles,
NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side of ...
WASHINGTON, DC—This week, NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said he has “full confidence” in the space agency’s plans to use the existing heat shield to protect the Orion spacecraft during its upcoming lunar mission.
NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.
The first human spaceflight to the vicinity of the Moon since December 1972 is set to roll out to Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The Orion spacecraft and its associated Space Launch System rocket,
At its closest approach to the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is projected to reach a peak velocity of approximately 8,280 kilometres per hour relative to the lunar surface. If a brake of 2,900 km/h fails,