Artemis II

NASA learned a lot about managing hydrogen leaks ahead of Artemis I, but another tanking test is needed before the next Space Launch System flies.

The U.S. House advances a NASA bill to boost Moon, Mars and ISS plans, support lunar bases and extend Hubble’s life, ensuring U.S. space leadership.

NASA will skip its February launch opportunity to send four astronauts on a flight test around the Moon to review data from a launchpad fueling test that ended early due to a hydrogen leak.

NASA on Feb. 2 was nearing the end of a two-day practice launch countdown for the upcoming Artemis II Moon mission, including fueling the SLS rocket.

Countdown clocks at NASA's Kennedy Space Center began ticking down toward a simulated launch of the Artemis II Moon mission.

NASA said it is standing down from a planned Jan. 31 wet dress rehearsal of its second Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

NASA says it is re-targeting the practice launch countdown for its Artemis II lunar flyby mission to no sooner than Jan. 31, two days earlier than planned.

In response to a NASA inspector general’s audit, agency leadership has agreed to accelerate implementation of changes to its mission support services.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts entered medical quarantine at the Johnson Space Center Jan. 23 ahead of a potential Feb. 6 launch.

An RS-25 engine has passed a follow-up hot fire test, clearing it for installation on the NASA Artemis IV mission’s Space Launch System (SLS).

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

NASA is aiming to send a crew of four into deep space for the first time since 1972.

NASA’s second Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket, topped with an Orion deep-space capsule, was rolled out to its Kennedy Space Center launchpad on Jan. 17.

An unspecified but nonemergency concern has prompted an early end to the SpaceX Crew-11 mission.

Nearly nine months after the Trump administration released its fiscal 2026 budget proposal to slash NASA funding by 24%, Congress is poised to reject the cuts.

NASA is on track to roll out its second SLS rocket to the launchpad within about 10 days, a key step toward the first crewed flight of an Orion spacecraft.

NASA is looking into the adoption of light detection and ranging (lidar) technology for lunar rover missions and operations on Mars.

A NASA safety panel is set to recommend that the agency reexamine the mission objectives of the crewed Artemis III Moon landing mission.

The fifth anniversary of the Artemis Accords was marked with optimism and concerns for the future during a Dec. 11 celebration.

Axiom Space and KBR have reached a milestone in the commercial development of Axiom’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit.

Arbus says it is shipping the fourth European Service Module (ESM-4) to the U.S. to support a future Artemis IV mission despite uncertainty over that endeavor.

NASA’s acting chief has called to reopen the Human Landing System competition, raising SpaceX’s ire.

The defense prime sees new business opportunities for NASA’s deep-space capsule.

NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, made his international space debut at a global gathering in Sydney.

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission has down-to-earth themes: "crawl, walk, run" and "know as you go."