NASA and the Department of Defense practice recovery procedures for an abort scenario in the upcoming Artemis 2 mission.

Artemis 2's Space Launch System rocket core stage was fitted with 4 RS-25 engines at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

Artemis 2 will be the first mission to carry humans to the moon's vicinity since 1972. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

"The unique Artemis 2 mission profile will build upon the uncrewed Artemis 1 flight test by demonstrating a broad range of SLS and Orion capabilities needed on deep space missions," said NASA's ...

Avionics used during Artemis 1 have already been rehabbed for use in Artemis 2. The Orion capsule’s heat shield will be mated to the craft in May 2023. Then the European Space Agency service ...

The Artemis 2 crew, standing in front of their Orion spacecraft, discusses their planned 2024 around-the-moon flight with reporters at the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: ...

Artemis 2 is an eight-day mission that will send three NASA astronauts and one Canadian Space Agency astronaut around the moon on a free-return trajectory. It is the last test flight before the ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Artemis 2 booster was rolled out of the space agency's Michoud Assembly Facility, in New Orleans today (July 16), 55 years to the day of NASA's Apollo 11 launch to ...

Artemis 2 is a precursor to Artemis 3, which will attempt the first crewed landing on the Moon since Apollo 17. On that mission, a four-person crew will fly on Orion and enter a near-rectilinear ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen ...

Up on the Space Coast, Artemis already has an impact on the local economy. "You’re looking at anywhere from 400,000 people or more," one local expert said.