NASA’s Artemis delays give China, India, and private firms a chance to dominate lunar exploration. Will shifting U.S.

The massive core section of the SLS has shuttle heritage in it Nasa has finished assembling the main structural components for its largest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V. Engineers at the ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket completed another milestone on its way to launch with the Umbilical Release and Retract Test (URRT). The URRT was performed on the rocket on September 19 ...

There been speculation that Donald Trump may cancel the Space Launch System rocket which Nasa intended to use to get from the ...

When it was proposed in 2011, the SLS seemed so simple. Rather than spending the time and money required to develop a completely new rocket, the super heavy-lift booster would be based on lightly ...

Astronauts aboard Artemis II will manually pilot the Orion spacecraft during its flight around the Moon. While the spacecraft ...

While Starship offers potential cost advantages through reusability, replacing SLS would present significant technical and scheduling challenges. The Falcon Heavy rocket has been considered for ...

On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...

The Orion spacecraft that will fly to the Moon on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was lifted atop its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on October 20, completing major assembly of the full vehicle stack.

I am a senior at Rancho Campana High School and started RCSpace after my summer NASA internship to share my love for space science and to bring hands-on NASA projects to collaborate with peers. This ...

All the major structures that will form the core stage for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the agency’s Artemis III mission are structurally complete. Technicians finished welding ...

The competition between these agile aerospace outfits will drive down launch rates, and NASA should begin weighing whether to replace the high-cost SLS rocket with a commercial alternative ...