If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being ...

Artemis II tests Boeing, Northrop Grumman's SLS and Lockheed Martin's Orion SLS faces criticism for high costs, delays compared with commercial alternatives NASA's strategy shifts toward commercial ...

For the first time in more than half a century, human astronauts are heading to the moon. Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida erupted in flames Wednesday evening as the agency ...

NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any human before on a 10-day journey, testing the SLS rocket and Orion capsule but without landing on the moon. This crucial ...

The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old, and it continues to be dominated by two unfortunate traits: It is expensive, and it is slow. The massive rocket and its ...