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  1. Spaceships and Rockets - NASA

    Apr 22, 2025 · Commercial resupply missions are changing the way NASA does business, helping to build a strong American commercial space industry and freeing the agency to focus on developing …

  2. Space Launch System (SLS) - NASA

    Dec 15, 2025 · Combining power and capability, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is part of NASA’s backbone for deep space exploration and Artemis. SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, …

  3. SLS Fact Sheets - NASA

    Apr 24, 2025 · NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, is a powerful, advanced launch vehicle for a new era of human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit.

  4. Space Launch System - NASA

    Jul 11, 2024 · With its unprecedented capabilities, SLS is the only rocket that can send NASA’s Orion spacecraft, four astronauts, and large cargo directly to the Moon on a single launch.

  5. Space Launch System - NASA

    Dec 13, 2021 · NASA’s Space Launch System, or SLS, is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle that provides the foundation for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. With its unprecedented power and …

  6. Launch Schedule Archives - NASA

    Final Steps Underway for NASA’s First Crewed Artemis Moon Mission NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy Out of This World Discoveries: Space Station …

  7. NASA Begins Processing Artemis III Moon Rocket at Kennedy

    Aug 18, 2025 · In early 2026, NASA will launch Artemis II, the first crewed flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon.

  8. How Do We Launch Things Into Space? - NASA Space Place

    Sep 25, 2025 · We launch things into space by putting them on rockets with enough fuel — called propellant — to boost them above most of Earth’s atmosphere. Once a rocket reaches the right …

  9. Launch Services Program Rockets - NASA

    Dec 11, 2023 · NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.

  10. Rocket Gallery - Glenn Research Center | NASA

    Nov 20, 2023 · As an additional feature for the Beginner’s Guide to Rockets, we are including a gallery of photographs of rockets used by NASA to launch a variety of payloads into orbit.