NASA and the Department of Defense practice recovery procedures for an abort scenario in the upcoming Artemis 2 mission.

Utah has a significant role, being the "factory" for the propulsion systems used by the SLS rocket. The new booster rocket ...

Northrop Grumman saw some fiery drama during a test of a more powerful version of the solid rocket booster that would be used if NASA’s Artemis program ever gets to its ninth launch using ...

The GAO determined that 14 of 18 NASA projects assessed were within cost and schedule margins during fiscal 2025, but four programs—led by the Orion deep-space crew capsule—are over budget by a total ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...

The famed countdown clock was stopped for the Artemis I launch. A different liquid hydrogen leak forced NASA to postpone the awaited liftoff on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (Spectrum News/Anthony Leone) ...

China is advancing the development of the technology it needs to try to beat NASA back to the moon.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested on X that a high-pressure nitrogen tank failure was behind the explosion of the company's ...

Trump’s budget calls for them to be replaced by unspecified private industry solutions after Artemis 3 in 2027. Orion is the program’s only crew capsule and SLS its only launch vehicle.

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on ...