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 ...
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 ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When NASA’s giant new moon rocket soars into space, the roar of its rockets will be the last gasp for some pieces of space shuttle program history. The Artemis I mission’s ...
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’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher as it rolls out of High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. (NASA / Joel Kowsky) CAPE ...
The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission. Photo: NASA On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, ...