Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaking ...

SLS and the Orion spacecraft are fully stacked together inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA conducted a hot fire Saturday of the core stage for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The hot fire is the final test of the Green ...

Northrop Grumman and NASA conducted a dramatic static-fire test of a booster for an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket last week. According to NASA, the five-segment booster rocket fired for more than ...

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

NASA has conducted the first in a planned series of 12 ground-test firings to certify the upgraded Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engine for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. SLS is to ...

NASA's Artemis II will celebrate America's 250th anniversary while flying the first humans to the Moon since Apollo 17 in ...

NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next Moon missions. Crews fitted the interstage simulator component onto the Thad ...

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 performs an RS-25 rocket engine hot fire test on Jan. 17. Credit: NASA Test personnel at NASA’s Stennis Space Center have successfully conducted the fourth in a second round of 12 ground test ...

NASA kicked off the final certification series for its Artemis moon-rocket engines with a dramatic "hot fire" test this week. NASA will begin using repurposed RS-25 space shuttle engines to fly ...

Welcome to Edition 6.16 of the Rocket Report! Lots of news here today about big rockets, including a push by SpaceX to speed up launch licensing by the Federal Aviation Administration. The full-court ...