NASA’s Next Moon Rocket Runs on Shuttle Engines—Here’s the Story Behind Each One

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.
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NASA rolls Artemis 2 rocket to the pad ahead of historic moon launch

The rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon is rolling to the pad for its historic mission, which ...
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A space shuttle model is cleared for landing in Downey

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. The Columbia Memorial Space Center in ...

Is SLS still the most powerful rocket? 5 facts as Artemis 2 rolls out

The rocket is about to traverse four miles to the launchpad — at about 1 mph.
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NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
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With Starship, SpaceX encounters an obstacle that haunted NASA’s space shuttles

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...
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Rocket Report: SpaceX surpasses shuttle launch total; Skyroot has big ambitions

Welcome to Edition 8.17 of the Rocket Report! Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the first crewed launch to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur. Since this time, humans ...
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A space shuttle model is cleared for landing in Downey

The Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a roughly 40,000-square-foot expansion that will include indoor and outdoor science learning areas and space for ...