NASA to roll Artemis II rocket
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NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12, at Kennedy Space Center to highlight progress toward the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, which is intended to carry astronauts around the Moon.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Humanity’s return to the moon began Saturday morning before dawn — at less than 1 mph. That was the top speed NASA’s rocket for the Artemis II mission hit during its ride atop the massive crawler that inched out of KSC’s ...
With their launch date now delayed, the four astronauts, who will be the first crewed NASA lunar mission in over 50 years, attended Tuesday’s State of the Union address as guests of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.
NASA’s giant SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is set to roll to the launch pad Saturday as it prepares to return humans to the vicinity of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as part of the Artemis II mission. At 7 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17 ...
While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.