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

NASA's Artemis program represents the most ambitious human spaceflight effort since Apollo, aiming not only to return ...

Over the weekend, NASA conducted a dress rehearsal for its scheduled February launch date of its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket ...

With NASA’s first launch toward the moon in five decades potentially only a few months away, the space agency has just ...

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

NASA/Adeline Morgan Santa Claus (NASA engineer Guy Naylor) poses with NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft and SLS (Space ...

NASA’s Artemis II crew completed a launch day rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center, practicing countdown procedures, spacecraft boarding and system checks ahead of their 2026 lunar orbit mission.

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

Agency officials are eyeing a February 5 launch for the mission that will send four astronauts around the Moon, but can they actually stick to this aggressive timeline? Reading time 3 minutes The ...

SpaceX final launch of 2025 is set for December 27 as a Falcon 9 rocket carries the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation mission into orbit.