When Artemis II blasts off for its lunar flyby, its powerful SLS rocket will include some "heritage hardware." The core engines are mostly recycled space shuttle engines, along with some reused ...

NASA has clarified that any attempt to move the Discovery space shuttle from Virginia to Texas could not involve its disassembly—more or less making the project impossible. Texas Republican Senator ...

On April 7, 1983, astronauts took the first spacewalk outside of a space shuttle during mission STS-6. This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to ...

Three of the four RS-25 engines powering the Artemis II mission previously flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet. The engines are cooled by liquid hydrogen to prevent the nozzle from melting from the ...

On the morning of January 28, 1986, millions of viewers around the globe were transfixed by their television sets, excitedly awaiting the Space Shuttle Challenger's launch. At first, everything went ...

The Artemis I crew and service modules with the Moon and Earth in the distance on Nov. 28, 2022. NASA While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed ...

Read full article: NASA delays astronauts’ lunar trip until March after hydrogen leaks mar fueling test The Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on Launch Pad 39B at after ...

Launch recap: Liftoff! Artemis II launched at 6:35 p.m. April 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39B. The astronauts are off on the historic mission around the moon. Original story: It is a ...

Before the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission travel farther from Earth than any human ever has, they first had to get to the launch site. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and ...

Artemis II is ready for its historic lunar mission. The massive rocket and Orion spacecraft are now sitting at the Launch Complex 39B after an hours-long, four-mile journey from the assembly building, ...