As part of the Artemis 2 mission, the US space agency is getting ready to roll out its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to the launch pad over the next few days. If all goes to plan, Nasa will be starting the move on Saturday 17 January.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is rolling toward the launch pad, marking a major step toward humanity’s next journey around the Moon.

SLS and the Orion spacecraft are fully stacked together inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center. Once final tests are complete, the launch vehicle will be rolled out onto the pad at Launch Complex-39A, which should take about 10 hours.

NASA could be sending a crew on the Orion spacecraft out past the moon in less than a month if everything falls into place. But first the agency has to get its rocket to the launch pad.

The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the Apollo era, was rolled out of the space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility, in New Orleans,

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday (Jan. 11) at 8:44 a.m. EST (1344 GMT and 5:44 a.m. local California time).

NASA has announced the demolition of several historic testing and simulation facilities at Marshall Space Flight Center.

NASA begins demolishing outdated facilities in Alabama as new administrator Jared Isaacman launches major infrastructure modernization efforts for space exploration.