In written testimony to Congress in 2023, the federation urged the government to use “existing industry data” to understand the explosive yield of methane and liquid oxygen rather than spending federal dollars on an independent test campaign. In the end, NASA, the Space Force, and the FAA decided their own tests were worth the money.

SpaceX chief Elon Musk said in February that the mighty Starship rocket would embark on its 12th test flight this month, although several more recent reports have suggested that it might not leave the launchpad until early April.

NASA's second multi-day test to simulate a launch day is underway in Florida in a critical demonstration of whether the agency's massive moon rocket is prepared to send astronauts on a lunar mission. While Artemis 2 could still get off the ground as early ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket,

NASA is fueling up its giant lunar rocket and attempting to complete a launch-day walkthrough on Thursday ahead of its highly anticipated mission to send four astronauts around the moon. The hourslong test, known as a “wet dress rehearsal,” is an ...

NASA is looking to make sure the problems with leaks in its moon rocket have been remedied with another Artemis II test run slated for Thursday night that could set up a launch in early March. Teams tried to run through what’s called a wet dress ...

For 20 years, NASA’s ALaMO Observatory has tracked meteors and lunar impacts, providing continuous data on space hazards and asteroid research from Huntsville, Alabama.

With the launch of Artemis II planned in a few weeks, NASA is ready to monitor the sun during the mission in order to protect the astronauts while in space.