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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket gets 2nd stage even as Trump tries to scrap Space Launch System (photos)
The Artemis 2 megarocket set to launch NASA's next astronauts to the moon in 2026 is almost completely assembled. The giant ...
Orlando Sentinel3d
Trump budget would slash NASA funds, kill off Artemis’ SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft
President Donald Trump’s proposed budget looks to end the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space station central to NASA’s existing Artemis program — but only after ...
USA Today4d
NASA's SLS rocket, Orion and science on chopping block under White House budget proposal
The White House budget proposal aims to discontinue NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) after three missions due to cost overruns. NASA's overall budget, including science programs, faces cuts ...
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NASA just swapped a 10-year-old Artemis II engine with one nearly twice its age
A couple of weeks ago, ground teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida removed one of the four main engines from the Space Launch System rocket slated to send four astronauts on a voyage ...
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Trump wants billions cut from NASA, including ‘grossly expensive’ Huntsville rocket
President Donald Trump’s budget request to fund the agency calls for a phase-out of the Space Launch System, the super-heavy, expendable launch vehicle that is intended to propel humans to the moon.
Interesting Engineering on MSN3d
Sea-based hypersonic missile launch system clears key test as US reveals secret launch
The Department of Defense (DoD) on Friday revealed that the missile launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...
The Gazette4d
NASA rocket, lunar station face cuts in Trump 2026 budget
The "skinny" - or outline - version of Trump's proposed 2026 budget, released on Friday, would cancel NASA's over-budget Space Launch System (SLS), a gigantic rocket built by Boeing and Northrop ...