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Home News What the heck is a "wet dress rehearsal" and what does it have to do with flying to space? If you've never heard that term before, NASA is about to enlighten you, as it undertakes a so-called wet dress rehearsal (WDR) with a rocket bound for the moon.…

Home News Spaceflight Axiom Space's private Ax-1 crew will ride a SpaceX spacecraft to the International Space Station in April 2022. They are (from left): pilot Larry Connor; Mark Pathy, mission specialist; Michael López-Alegría, commander; and Eytan Stibbe, mission specialist. (Image credit: Axiom Space) The first all-private crewed mission to…

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, March 29, to discuss the upcoming final major test with the agency’s Mega Moon rocket and spacecraft at the launch pad ahead of the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission...Read More

Home News Spaceflight The sun rises behind the Artemis 1 Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after their first-ever rollout to the launch pad, on March 18, 2022. (Image credit: NASA) NASA's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was dramatically backdropped by two solar system bodies during its first-ever…

NASA's Moon rocket is on the move at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building for a 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B on March 17, 2022. NASA/Kim Shiflett Early Friday morning, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft arrived…

Home News Spaceflight NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule on the move toward Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 17, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky)) CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA's new megarocket for its Artemis 1 moon mission is on the launch pad…

NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return the first humans to the moon since 1972, is severely over budget and delayed, the space agency’s inspector general warned recently. Speaking during a meeting of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on March 1, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin took…

“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.”  Those were the words that Richard Nixon read on television in 1969 while breaking the terrible news to the nation that the Apollo 11 mission had…

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission will be the agency's first big step toward returning astronauts to the lunar surface.  Formerly known as Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), Artemis 1 will be the first test flight of the agency's new Space Launch System megarocket and the Orion crew capsule. The SLS rocket…

Home News Spaceflight A close-up view of NASA's Artemis 1 Space Launch System megarocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 20, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/Frank Michaux) NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission may end up being a summertime affair. An April launch is…