NASA is testing a new deep space rocket model. | Vocativ

Engineers at NASA Langley Research Center are helping our next heavy-lift rocket get off the ground. NASA's Space Launch System will be the most powerful rocket we’ve ever built. Potential stops? The Moon and Mars. See how team members are helping push the frontier of exploration: https://youtu.be/2XQtfavYxzs | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Path to the Moon - Artemis II Rollout from VAB to Launchpad: On January 17, 2026, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. This marks a definitive milestone for the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the lunar vicinity in over half a century. Carried by the massive Crawler-Transporter 2, the 322-foot-tall vehicle completed its four-mile journey to Launch Pad 39B. The move, while slow,

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday, August 26, launched its giant Starship rocket for a tenth test flight aiming to overcome development setbacks and clinch long-sought technical milestones key to the Mars rocket's reusable design. The towering 403-foot-tall Starship system lifted off around 7:30 PM from SpaceX's Starbase facilities in south Texas on a mission to test the ship's new heat shield tiles and satellite deployment abilities, among hundreds of other upgrades from past iterations. The rocket