On November 16, 2022, NASA’s Space Launch System thundered off Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust and sending the uncrewed Orion capsule toward the Moon. Roughly eight minutes later,

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being has traveled into space. If the rest of the Artemis ...

It has been the pride of my lifetime to contribute to the Apollo, Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Artemis teams. I have watched American ingenuity reach extraordinary heights. Congress must continue to fund the Space Launch System and Artemis -- not just to return to the Moon,

Meet three of the dozen College of Engineering & Computing graduates who are working on mission-critical aspects of NASA’s Artemis program.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket developed for the agency's Artemis lunar program is among the tallest in the world. Here's how it stack up.

How cork-based thermal protection material is helping safeguard NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System in extreme ascent environments As NASA advances its Artemis program toward a sustained human return to the Moon,

Artemis II is capturing global attention—but it’s only the next stride in NASA’s accelerating campaign to return humans to the moon and beyond. Artemis II will mark the first time humans set out to attempt a lunar flyby in over 50 years, another ...

NASA has selected the United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur upper stage to replace the existing Space Launch System second-stage for Artemis IV and beyond, per a procurement filing spotted by SpaceNews. With similar dimensions and specific impulse ...

The Artemis 2 mission is due to send astronauts on a test mission to the moon and back during the "opening act" of a new age of discovery.