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NASA's next moon rocket is coming together, piece by piece. The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side boosters inside the ...

Workers with Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs teams assist as the right-hand forward segment for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The segment is lowered onto the center forward ...

The first human mission to the moon in half a century is starting to get stacked up. The NASA-funded Space Launch System (SLS), the massive rocket slated to send the Artemis 2 crew around the moon in ...

NASA would like to start stacking the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis II mission—the first human flight around the Moon since 1972—sometime next month, but the agency’s exploration chief ...

In this view looking up inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the work platforms have been retracted from around the Artemis I Space Launch ...

Faced with growing uncertainty over the future of Artemis, NASA this week showed off the progress of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket to journalists, bringing out the crew and ...

At the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program continues to prepare for the Artemis II circumlunar mission that was recently delayed to September 2025. EGS is ...

On April 20, NASA will wheel the largest section of the Artemis III Space Launch System core stage out of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and load it onto the Pegasus barge for a ...

Prime contractor Boeing rolled out the second Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on July 16 from the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) and secured it to NASA’s Pegasus barge for transportation to the ...

Orion Integrity spacecraft connected with the SLS rocket, readying for historic crewed journey to the Moon "Integration of SLS and Orion represents a major milestone in our progress on Artemis," said ...

The largest piece of the rocket that will carry astronauts back to the moon arrived in Florida on April 27, 2026, closing a ...