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The convergence of the Artemis II and Crew-12 launch schedules adds another layer of importance to Monday’s countdown test at Kennedy Space Center. For the first time since the 1960s, NASA has separate astronaut crews simultaneously in preflight quarantine, a routine measure to prevent crew members from flying to space with an illness.

NASA performed a critical wet dress rehearsal at Cape Canaveral, loading over 700,000 pounds of propellant into the Artemis rocket. While the highly anticipated first crewed mission to the moon in decades has been postponed for further safety checks,

A rare arctic outbreak forces engineers to delay the critical Artemis II fueling test, narrowing the February launch window.

NASA rolled its 11 million pound Artemis rocket to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center today. The hourslong roll out marked a new milestone for the Artemis II mission which is aiming to have astronauts slingshot around the moon. NBC News’ Gadi ...

SpaceX plans to launch a batch of its Starlink commercial satellites from Vandenberg on Groundhog Day. Here's where to see the Falcon 9 in California.

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The concept, often described as a giant space catapult, is ...