The Orion spacecraft, with its launch abort system, stands on top of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Corey Huston
NASA officials said Wednesday the first rollout of the agency’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket is scheduled in mid-March for a key fueling test on a seaside launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, a few weeks than previous planned to allow more time for closeouts inside the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Astra’s Rocket 3.3, with NASA’s “meatball” logo on its fairing, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Astra / John Kraus
Astra has become the first company to receive a commercial launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration through a streamlined regulatory regime, clearing a procedural hurdle before launching a small rocket and four NASA-sponsored CubeSats into orbit Saturday from Cape Canaveral.
Hollywood has finally taken inspiration from the decade-ago move of a NASA space shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles and it only took the moon falling out of the sky for it to happen.
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to slam into the moon in exactly one month.
The flight, called Ax-1, is made up of one professional astronaut and three paying customers.
NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.
Some people around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.
NASA and SpaceX will hold announce an update to the agency's next astronaut launch from Florida today (Feb. 4) and you can follow it live online.
The distance to Mars from Earth constantly changes as they orbit the sun. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km).
The master of disaster has struck again, and this time our Moon is the ominous villain.
Week in images: 31 January - 4 February 2022
There’s a massive star in our galaxy’s halo, far away from the usual star-forming haunts. How did it get there?
Here's how to stay up to date on all of NASA's content for Black History month.
Frequent meteor collisions occurred on the Red Planet for 30 million more years than thought, a new study suggests.
The man who gave us mutant neutrinos that melt the Earth's core hopes his movies will raise awareness over real dangers to our planet.
A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.
Image: A new eruption started at the Anak Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia on 3 February 2022, as seen in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
This is the part of the month when the evening Moon is at its telescopic best in many skywatchers' opinions, as the terminator sweeps across the middle of the Moon's disk. And in February, the Moon at these phases rides especially high. Jupiter sinks low in evening twilight, and a triangle of planets displays in early dawn.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Batura Glacier – one of the largest and longest glaciers in the world, outside of the polar regions.
Could satellites be able to help track and map the marine plastic waste befouling our oceans? Research teams from across Europe returned to a Netherlands-based ocean wave test facility to try and detect floating plastic. Using a suite of microwave and optical instruments, the researchers are assessing if orbital monitoring of plastic might be practical in the future.
China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter is once again delivering stunning imagery, with a new video released to celebrate the lunar New Year.
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