The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket continues to grow inside the NASA's ...

The giant rocket that will launch humanity's next crewed moon mission is coming together across the southern United States. NASA plans to launch its Artemis 2 mission, which will send four ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together major elements of the rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission with the first humans to the moon in more ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s core stage for Artemis 2 at the ... to the Moon and back without actually landing on the lunar surface (that’s the job of Artemis 3). NASA’s Artemis ...

rocket to send an unpiloted Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule on a looping flight around the moon and back. NASA had planned to launch the Artemis 2 mission at the end of this year to carry a ...

The first human mission to the moon in half ... These two solid rocket boosters will help heft the 322-foot (98-meter) SLS to space, along with the four astronauts of the Artemis 2 crew.

The 5.75-million-pound rocket is essential to NASA’s Moon program, with plans to launch Artemis 2 in late 2024 followed by the first crewed landing on the lunar surface as early as 2025 and ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Friday, NASA unveiled the massive Artemis II rocket that will be used to return humans to the moon in an orbital mission that will last 10 days as the program manager ...

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion.