Artemis, NASA and Moon
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NASA’s Artemis II SLS rocket is on its Florida launch pad, and visitors can see it from several Titusville parks or at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex before the mission around the moon.
Artemis II mission will take 4 astronauts on a trip around the moon. The vehicle that will send them there? A massive NASA Space Launch System rocket.
NASA has rolled the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket back to Launch Complex-39B. SLS spend nearly a month inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for maintenance after an initial rollout to the pad in January,
An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch astronauts on a mission around the moon. Ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida partially fueled the 322-foot ...
A side view shows one of the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters, core stage, Orion spacecraft, and launch abort system of NASA's Artemis II rocket at Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.
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100 years after Goddard, liquid-fueled rockets power NASA’s moon push
One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today,