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Inside NASA's incredible vehicle assembly building

Inside NASA’s giant rocket garage — the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). This video covers the cranes, platforms, and crawler built to move these giant spacecraft, including the Saturn V, Apollo ...
CNN

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear

Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble and James Webb ...
Orlando Sentinel

NASA’s SLS rocket for moonbound Artemis II mission fully stacked at KSC

Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA managed to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back to the moon. Last week, teams completed the stacking of the Orion spacecraft ...
BGR

NASA Is Already Building Artemis 3, So What's The Holdup With Artemis 2?

NASA has officially begun assembling the Artemis III moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Artemis III is the future mission that aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in ...
UPI

Orion spacecraft makes crucial move toward its 2026 launch to moon

Oct. 17 (UPI) --NASA's Orion spacecraft was moved seven miles to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Thursday, its second-to-last move before its scheduled launch in 2026. NASA got ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad

The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night, ready to be ...
Florida Today

1 dead in 4-vehicle crash by NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. What we know

A deadly crash happened Friday, Sept. 26, on Beach Road, just east of Titusville Road and west of Launch Complex 34. Troopers were on scene of an early morning fatal crash near NASA's Kennedy Space ...
Futurism

NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) — the country’s largest organization of Earth and space scientists, engineers, and technologists in Greenbelt, Maryland — is making drastic changes following ...
SpaceNews

NASA revives VIPER lunar rover mission with Blue Origin lander award

Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander will deliver NASA’s VIPER lunar rover to the moon under a CLPS task order awarded Sept. 19. Credit: Blue Origin PARIS — NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover ...
TechCrunch

NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to ...
New York Post

Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy to announce plans for building nuclear reactor on the moon

It’s a power move. The Trump administration aims to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor on the moon, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wrote in a memo ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle will search for lunar ice and subsurface structures

NASA is gearing up for an exciting chapter in lunar exploration by sending a trio of high-tech instruments to the Moon. Two of the devices will be attached to a new lunar rover capable of carrying ...