The super heavy-lift launch vehicle will be more powerful ... built for humans has flown,” according to NASA. Artemis 1 mission map. Graphic: NASA Orion will cruise behind the Moon, during ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft, ...

NASA officials on Saturday said teams were planning to roll the 322-foot Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis I mission back to the Vehicle ... opens Oct. 17. Graphics: After 50 years ...

NASA’s oft-delayed Space Launch System, or SLS, is finally ready for launch. The megarocket is designed to launch vehicles into deep space, and its first mission is called Artemis I. NASA is ...

Here is a breakdown of the aerospace launch vehicles NASA currently uses — not including retired rockets such as Saturn V. 1. Atlas V Atlas V rockets currently come in two series — the 400 and 500.

The 32-story Space Launch ... for NASA's post-Apollo human spaceflight program after decades focused on low-Earth orbit with space shuttles and the International Space Station. (See graphic ...

The grand deorbit of the aging laboratory will happen around 2030, and NASA ... graphic below. (The Dragon craft currently supply both crew and cargo to the space station.) The new, elongated ...

In a sources sought notice posted Tuesday, NASA said its planned Evolving Launch Vehicle Integrated Support 4 contract will succeed the current KSC ELVIS 3 contract. ELVIS 4 has an intended start ...

On Friday NASA closed the bidding process to select a launch vehicle for an upcoming Earth science mission to measure changes in sea level, Sentinel-6B. The mission is expected to launch into low ...

Credit: NASA / Joel Kowsky If this NASA launch vehicle could talk — say at an international consortium of the world's most elite, hobnobbing space rockets — this is how it would introduce ...