NASA’s launch and mission teams, along with the Artemis II crew, completed a key test Dec. 20, a countdown demonstration test, ahead of the Artemis II flight around the Moon early next year.

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

Artemis II will mark humanity's first crewed journey beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The approximately 10-day ...

Rocket Lab launches Space Force and NASA ‘DiskSat’ experiment  Rocket Lab set to launch Space Force and NASA ‘DiskSat’ ...

In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission-1 lander's engine plumes and the lunar surface.

Rocket Lab has set a new personal best for annual launch cadence, using its latest Electron flight to loft a quartet of ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center achieved key 2025 milestones, including Artemis II Orion stacking, lunar payload deliveries, ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar ...

California-based Rocket Lab has completed systems integration for its Photon spacecraft ahead of the upcoming LOXSAT mission with Eta Space and NASA. Designed to showcase in-orbit cryogenic refueling, ...