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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It's make or break time for NASA's new moon rocket. With 8.8 million pounds of thrust, the rocket — called the Space Launch System (SLS) — is designed to be mightier than NASA's mighty Saturn V. Its Orion space…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The countdown is on for NASA's biggest test flight of the year.At 10:23 a.m. EDT (1423 GMT) today (Aug. 27), the countdown clock began ticking down to the planned launch of NASA's Artemis 1 mission, an ambitious…

The uncrewed Artemis I mission, including the Space Launch System Rocket and Orion spacecraft, is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Although there is no…

Turkey on Tuesday (9 August) sent its newest drill ship on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years. The search for natural gas in energy-rich waters around the divided island of…

Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie has set the record straight on the media’s interest in Tom Cruise.The filmmaker and Top Gun: Maverick producer, who has worked with Cruise on nine films, spoke candidly about the actor,…

Two NASA missions will take a roadtrip together to orbit in April 2025, the agency announced.Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will be five spacecraft, one devoted to astrophysics and the other four a mission devoted to solar science.…