3.6K. As NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket stands ready for its first test flight next week, the Artemis program prepares to follow in the footsteps of Apollo, which first carried humans ...

NASA’s Artemis 1 lifts off from launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., carrying the Orion spacecraft on a mission to orbit the moon, early Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

HOUSTON—Dragonfly, a challenging and costly NASA mission to launch a drone rotocopter to Saturn’s large moon Titan, has completed the agency’s critical design review (CDR).

SLS rockets are NASA’s newest rocket and the biggest since the Saturn V moon rocket. The 212-foot core stage of the rocket produces more than 2 million pounds of thrust to propel the rocket off ...

Prior to that flight, NASA assembled a test rocket that brought together all the stages of the Saturn V rocket for testing at its Kennedy Space Center in early 1996.

NASA touts SLS as the only rocket capable of transporting both crew and cargo for its deep-space destinations. A crewed Artemis II flight on an orbital moon mission is slated for no earlier than ...