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NASA is shooting for a late August launch of its giant, new moon rocket. Wednesday's announcement came on the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

NASA successfully fueled its new moon rocket on the agency's fourth attempt, but problems remain.

The Space Launch System rocket that will fly NASAs Artemis 1 moon mission is at the pad for a critical launch countdown simulation this weekend.

Three earlier attempts to load the giant rocket with 730,000 gallons of propellant were only partially successful.

NASA is looking beyond the planned April 8 launch of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to resume the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) at Kennedy Space Center, which has been scrubbed twice so far this week due to issues with the Mobile Launch Platform.

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Bob Cabana are among the agencys speakers at the Space Foundations 37th...

NASA will provide an update on its Artemis moon lander plan and youll be able to listen to it live online.

NASA announced today it has pushed a planned mid-February rollout of the Artemis I rocket to the launch pad to no earlier than March, meaning a potential launch won’t happen until at least April.

NASA EGS, Jacobs preparing SLS Core Stage for Artemis 1 stacking May 6, 2021 The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 29. The stage is now in the hands of KSC’s Exploration Ground System (EGS) program and prime test operations and support contractor (TOSC) Jacobs. The long-awaited milestone allows EGS and Jacobs to work towards putting the whole Orion/SLS vehicle...

Ten month schedule to ready SLS for Artemis 1 launch after Core Stage arrives at KSC May 3, 2021 NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program is looking at a wide range of forecasts for when they can complete testing necessary to be ready to launch Artemis 1. The Core Stage of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Center and was moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on April 29 to prep for stacking with the new launch vehicle’s Solid Rocke...