Orion is the name of the spacecraft NASA will be using to take people to the Moon and back as part of the Artemis program. The first test flight of the thing, together with the Space Launch System ...

Three Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) today successfully powered the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-133 to deliver spare parts and a modified cargo ...

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. This is the first flight with a complement of three enhanced engines. The improved engines will make the world’s only reusable launch vehicle ...

The military’s primary launch provider, the United Launch Alliance, has selected the main engine for its next-generation rocket, a vehicle called the Vulcan. The company — a joint venture between ...

One of the primary criticisms of NASA’s Space Launch System is that the program was created to save jobs at key agency contractors that otherwise would have been lost following the end of the space ...

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 around ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft Main Engine contract for the future Artemis mission was awarded to a rocket and missile manufacturer, Aero Rocketdyne. The NASA logo on a protective box for a camera near the ...

The heart of NASA's Space Launch System arrived at Kennedy Space Center last April as the agency's first human-rated deep space rocket in 50 years. The 212-foot core stage rocket, along with a pair of ...