Moon Mission

NASA employees brief the media on Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. about the delayed Artemis II mission. The news conference focused on revisions and fixes being done to the rocket components. Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images…

March 12, 2026 3 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm NASA is planning to roll its moon mission rocket back out later this month, with an April 1 target launch date By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA is working to launch its Artemis II…

The Artemis 2 astronauts — from left to right, Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialist Christina Koch — attend the State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington,…

NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April. Although March 6 had been tentatively planned as the launch date, the US space agency revealed that a problem with the rocket has caused further delay. According to…

NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Vehicle Assembly Building after observing an interrupted flow of helium, the space agency said on Saturday. "This will almost assuredly impact the March launch window," NASA said. NASA said it is taking steps…

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NASA is preparing to remove its massive moon rocket from its launchpad to fix a technical issue, delaying the agency’s much-anticipated mission to send a crew of four around the moon. On Saturday, NASA announced that it planned to roll back the rocket, the Boeing-built Space Launch System, to its hangar at…

In the latest setback to return astronauts to the moon, NASA delayed the highly anticipated flight yet again after a new problem cropped up with the rocket Saturday...Read More

February 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Just a day after NASA set a March 6 target date for its upcoming moon mission, the agency’s head announced it will roll back Artemis II’s rocket from the pad entirely By Claire Cameron NASA/Sam Lott Join Our…

NASA's Space Launch System rocket on the launch pad. The Artemis II moon mission could launch as soon as March 6. (Image credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP via Getty Images) NASA is targeting Friday, March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for the historic Artemis II mission…