Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center deliver, lift, and install the first new production RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand on Feb. 18. Credit: NASA/Danny Nowlin NASA’s Stennis Space Center ...

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center gave the first flight article of the RS-25 rocket engine modified for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) a full-duration static test Thursday, firing the ...

The latest hot-fire of NASA’s Artemis moon rocket engine at Stennis Space Center was more than a dramatic plume on the Mississippi horizon, it was a proof point that the agency’s heavy-lift strategy ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

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Despite president Donald Trump’s plans to phase out Boeing’s mega-expensive Space Launch System rocket for NASA, the agency is currently trundling ahead with the original plan. As Ars Technica reports ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

NASA is set to test the SLS engine a sixth time with a 535 second burn, and you can watch it live. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens ...

The Artemis I lunar rocket sits on the launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 2, 2022, before its inaugural uncrewed test flight. On the heels of the revelation that Boeing ...

NASA plans to begin testing RS-25 engines for its new Space Launch System (SLS) in the fall of 2014, and the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi has a very big — literally — item to complete ...

WASHINGTON — NASA on Thursday took another step toward human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. At the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, engineers conducted the final ...