Aside from the fireworks, the test allowed engineers to put a new motor ignition system, materials, and an electronic thrust vector control system through their paces, and to gather data from 300 ...

More than a decade after NASA landed its last space shuttle, parts from all five orbiters are set to launch again, this time to the moon. Components from 83 shuttle missions are on Artemis 1.

Northrop says the new cases are lighter and stronger. It also replaces the booster's hydraulic thrust vector control steering system with an electronic system.

The space agency had 16, but four of them, used during Artemis 1, are now at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Such will be the fate of the remaining 12, which will go into use during Artemis 2, 3 ...

This contract, with a value of $3.19 billion, definitizes a letter contract awarded in June 2020 that authorized Northrop Grumman to order long-lead items and build twin boosters for the next six ...

NASA’s massive, fully expendable Moon rocket is under heavy scrutiny. The 5.75-million-pound SLS was built using components from NASA’s Space Shuttle program, which ran from 1981 to 2011.

NASA’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is set to blast four astronauts to space next year on the epic Artemis II mission that will come within about 80 miles of the lunar surface. In ...