NASA’s new moon rocket heads to the pad ahead of astronaut launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s giant new moon rocket headed to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century. The out-and-back trip ...

NASA’s Giant Rocket Begins Slow Roll Toward Artemis II Moon Voyage

The Space Launch System and Orion capsule are being transported to the launchpad before an astronaut mission that could ...

‘The start of a very long journey’: NASA’s Artemis moon rocket makes the slow trip to its launch pad

NASA moved its Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad to get set for sending humans around the moon for the first time ...

NASA's SLS rocket rolls to launch pad head of Artemis II moon mission

NASA's SLS rolled to the launch pad prior to the upcoming Artemis II mission. Soon the rocket will send a crew of four around ...

Explained: Why Artemis II will carry astronauts to the moon, but not land

The upcoming Artemis II mission will see NASA's spacecraft carrying four astronauts around the moon. This mission aims to surpass Apollo 13's distance record, focusing on safety and critical system ...

The Ultimate Vacation Package? Tech Company Opens Reservations For $10M Moon Getaway

Want a vacation package your friends can't top? A tech company is now accepting reservations for a hotel on the moon, and it ...

4 astronauts will soon take an unprecedented path to the moon. But why aren’t they landing?

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission

The crawler carrying the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft was built 60 years ago to haul NASA’s Saturn V rockets, then kept ...

What is a planetary conjunction? When, how to see moon, Saturn in January

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...
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The lunar lander jet, how a strange VTOL aircraft trained NASA astronauts to land on the moon

During the Cold War, an unusual experimental jet became a critical training tool for NASA, allowing astronauts to rehearse lunar landing techniques years before Apollo. Flown by Neil Armstrong himself ...
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NASA Solidifies Plans To Put Nuclear Reactor On Moon By 2030 – Major Unknowns Still Make It Unlikely

NASA and DOE aim to deploy nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit, and that also includes the development of a lunar ...