Space Launch System

booster

NASA's new FSB-1 megarocket booster test just torched an entire Utah hillside

By Jeff Spry 1 year ago

Rockets

Blast off in real time with the transparent guts of history's most famous rockets

By Adam Pockross 1 year ago

NASA image of Mars

NASA to send humans to Mars by 2033, after we return to the moon

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 years ago

Can NASA send people back to the Moon by 2024? Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

The White House wants NASA to put boots on the Moon by 2024. That seems... unlikely.

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

Artwork depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) in flight. But do we really need this rocket? Credit: NASA

Remind me again: Why exactly do we need the SLS?

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

The moment of launch for the eighth flight of the New Shepard rocket on April 29th, 2018. Credit: Blue Origin

Rocket News: Blue Origin, SpaceX, and the future of spaceflight

By Phil Plait 3 years ago