NASA delays Artemis II launch
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While Artemis II won’t land, its successor, Artemis III, is expected to launch and land on the surface of the moon mid-2027. NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build the vehicle that will carry astronauts to the moon.
Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II over the weekend, NASA's new administrator, Jared Isaacman, made sure to put an asterisk on the program's future.
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NASA Artemis rocket booster suffers alarming anomaly in key test
The latest test of a next-generation rocket booster for NASA’s Artemis moon program ended with a violent structural failure, abruptly cutting short what was supposed to be a carefully choreographed demonstration of future launch hardware.
NASA's new Administrator, Jared Isaacman, wrapped up his visits to NASA's facilities across the country with a trip to NASA Glenn Research Center and gave News 5 an exclusive interview.
NASA has brought online Athena, its most powerful supercomputer to date, delivering over 20 petaflops of peak performance. Housed at the Ames Research Center, the system replaces the older Pleiades supercomputer.
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Mars in 45 days is now real inside NASA’s wild nuclear rocket plan
Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered spacecraft could sprint to the red planet in roughly a month and a half instead of most of a year.
NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually cold weather forecasted to hit the Space Coast this weekend.