Moon Mission

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket stands on pad 39B. Credit: United Launch Alliance Five decades after the final flight of NASA’s legendary Saturn 5 moon rocket, the U.S. space agency is poised to launch its most powerful rocket yet Monday for a…

Home News Spaceflight The Artemis 1 stack on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's new megarocket for deep space flights is ready to attempt its historic first test flight next week  The U.S. space agency on Saturday (Aug.…

Home News Spaceflight An illustration of Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft traveling through space toward the moon. (Image credit: NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is about to launch its biggest rocket since the famous Saturn V took Apollo astronauts to the moon — and that's where this new mission is…

Home News Spaceflight NASA's Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket and its Orion spacecraft stand on Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Aug. 25, 2022, four days before liftoff. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The countdown is on for NASA's…

Nasa is set to launch its new Moon rocket on Monday, marking the next chapter in putting humans back on the Moon. The flight is the first in the agency’s Artemis programme and will be uncrewed this time. However, there will be astronauts on board for subsequent missions, with the…

Home News Spaceflight The Artemis 1 megarocket stands ready for a moon launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA's moon mission has an ambitious amount of science to perform. Searching for lunar water and the other science objectives of Artemis 1 are the beginning…

If you’ve simply been too busy to get up to speed with NASA’s upcoming Artemis I mission, then a new video released by the space agency tells you everything you need to know about it in less than five minutes. Titled Artemis I: We Are Ready, the video explains why…

Home News Tech An artist's depiction of what the Artemis 1 launch will look like. (Image credit: NASA) You can follow NASA's epic Artemis 1 moon mission in real time after it lifts off next week. NASA will launch an Artemis 1 tracking website on Sunday (Aug. 28), the day…

After more than a decade of development, NASA’s new moon rocket will finally attempt to shed the shackles of Earth’s gravity and soar into space. The space agency has officially set August 29 as the launch date for its Artemis I mission. This flight will be the beginning of an…

NASA's Artemis program to return people to the surface of the Moon for the first time since the 1970s is a test of whether the space agency's old way of exploration will stand up in the modern space age. Why it matters: If next week's scheduled launch of the new…