Jeff Hessel worked at Cape Canaveral in the heyday of the U.S. space program. He now lectures about the experience to groups ...

The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's Vehicle ...

The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

The rocket's development cost of roughly $23 billion since 2010 is "140 percent over budget," it added. "The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights to the Moon with more cost ...

an early test of a lunar sample-return program. In late 2014, a Chinese Long March 3C rocket launched a small spacecraft to loop around the moon once and return to Earth. Part of the rocket was ...

Engineers floated the idea of using the Mark 1 (MK1) as a mass simulator, if needed, for the first launch of Blue Origin’s ...

The Space Launch Systems rocket and the Orion spacecraft are designed to send humans back to the moon under the Artemis program. The Artemis II program will send people back to the moon to orbit ...

"The SLS [Space Launch System] rocket and Orion capsule will ... in the best interests of Canada's space program." Artemis II mission to the moon with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen delayed ...

The plan could cut the lunar Gateway program and phase out the Space ... Gateway space station that would orbit the moon and phase out the SLS rocket and Orion capsule, and shift towards ...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS NASA’S SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM, OR SLS PROGRAM, IS GROSSLY EXPENSIVE, AND IT MUST GO. THE PROPOSAL CALLS FOR THE MOON ROCKET AND ORION CAPSULE TO BE PHASED OUT AFTER ...