NASA outlines Artemis II flight profile ahead of crewed Orion mission

NASA has released an animation detailing the Artemis II mission, a crewed test flight that will validate the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft for deep-space travel beyond low Earth orbit.

As cold grips Florida, NASA's Artemis II rocket moves toward final test

Temperatures dropped into the 20s over the weekend, yet NASA teams are hard at work preparing for the historic Artemis II liftoff. Here's the latest.

NASA fuels Artemis 2 Moon rocket despite leaks, testing readiness for a crewed lunar flight

NASA’s Moon rocket passed a tense fueling test despite hydrogen leaks, edging Artemis 2 closer to launch and raising a key question: is the spacecraft finally ready to carry astronauts beyond Earth?

Flight engineers give NASA's Dragonfly lift

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And the work to ensure this first-of-its-kind project can fulfill its ambitious exploration vision is underway in some of the nation's most advanced space simulation and testing laboratories.
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NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center lead research pilot David “Nils” Larson details early flight tests of the X-59 experimental aircraft

NASA pilot David “Nils” Larson outlines X-59 early flight tests, design features, risk management, and planned research phases based on NASA’s Small Steps, Giant Leaps podcast.

The race to the Moon is back — NASA needs to get serious to beat the Chinese

NASA prepares to launch Artemis II mission in September, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.