Pad processing plan: With rollout underway, NASA plans just under two months of pad processing for the Apollo 11 vehicle. This will include a complete checkout of the rocket, a countdown ...

Cape Canaveral has been the site of numerous rocket launches and space faring missions, and that's all due to its strategic ...

Its rectangular steel frame, known as “the battleship,” dates from Apollo. NASA retrofits the stand for each new rocket ... system fed by a battery of 11 pumps drawing from a nearby reservoir.

The shadow of their lander dominates a mosaic of the numbered photos Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took out their window before leaving the moon. NASA/Panorama assembled by R. Farwell for the ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission.

An curved arrow pointing right. Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds, the ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next ... to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972. While the Artemis II mission is on the ...

When NASA made history 50 years ago by landing ... The module's descent stage - lower part with a big rocket engine - took Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface ...