SEE ALSO: Watch NASA test the 'largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built' As it stands now, the SLS program has been working toward launching an uncrewed flight of the rocket and Orion ...

Though a formal roadmap for the program is a while off, the hearing allowed legislators and former government officials to air their concerns about NASA's controversial Space Launch System (SLS), the ...

Historically, however, SLS and Orion spacecraft development has received substantial funding from a broad coalition; the program supports more than 69,000 jobs nationwide as of 2019. But critics ...

On Monday, NASA had planned to attempt the first test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful megarocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft. This is the Artemis I mission, and if ...

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry ...

The question is when. NASA’s current plan is to launch Artemis II, the first crewed SLS/Orion mission, in April 2026. That flight will carry four astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth. Artemis ...

NASA and its partners are pressing to speed up the timeline for the Artemis II launch that will fly humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as the program competes with Trump ...

The ESA is supplying the service module for the Orion crew capsule to be launched on the SLS, as well as key habitation elements of the Gateway. In return, it was expecting Nasa to fly three ...

These officials were part of the team that succeeded in launching Artemis I as “the first flight test of the integrated Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket,” according ...

The space agency is holding a contest for the “zero gravity indicator” that will be carried aboard the Artemis II mission, ...