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NASA engineers manage propulsion systems and space communications to maintain Artemis II’s schedule, ensuring the Orion spacecraft and crew remain connected from launch to splashdown.
For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its storability and simplicity,
Rockets launch to space almost every day. All of this incredible innovation owes a debt to a modest experiment that took place 100 years ago: On March 16, 1926, American physicist and engineer (and occasional Scientific American contributor) Robert H.
NASA's Crawler-Transporter 2 will soon move the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39B ahead of launch.
The towering Space Launch System rocket for NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission is about to leave the hangar and begin its slow crawl toward the Florida coast. As the Artemis II stack prepares to roll out to the launch pad, the move signals that the ...
Reusable rockets have reshaped the economics of spaceflight by dramatically reducing the cost of launching payloads into orbit. Traditional rockets were single-use vehicles that burned up or crashed after each mission, driving launch prices above $200 ...
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Artemis II rockets still have a fuel problem. NASA’s administrator says ‘we should not be surprised’
The full Moon is seen behind NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, standing atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The moon-bound Artemis II mission ...
NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a key test flight in humanity's broader lunar goals as the U.S. races to reassert leadership in space faced with growing competition from China.
NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket is about to depart the launch pad in Florida where it has been vertical for more than a month in anticipation of the first U.S. human lunar mission in decades. There it sat at Launch Pad 39B for weeks as the ...