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Iran’s missile attack on Diego Garcia, a U.S.-U.K. military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean and roughly as far from Iran as London and Paris, shows Tehran getting bolder about demonstrating its ability to target Europe, said Danny Citrinowicz, who ...
After a trip back out to the launch pad, NASA's Artemis II rocket will be readied for a historic flight to the moon.
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Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to launch pad | Space photo of the day for March 20, 2026
NASA's Space Launch System rocket was back on the move overnight ahead of its second mission to the moon, which will be the first time the vehicle carries a crew.
NASA began rolling the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad shortly after midnight Friday Eastern Time in anticipation of a launch in early April. The journey of the Space Launch System rocket to Launch Pad 39B was to take about four hours.
In written testimony to Congress in 2023, the federation urged the government to use “existing industry data” to understand the explosive yield of methane and liquid oxygen rather than spending federal dollars on an independent test campaign. In the end, NASA, the Space Force, and the FAA decided their own tests were worth the money.
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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket arrives back at the launch pad
NASA's SLS rocket is back at the launch pad as the space agency gears up to launch Artemis 2 astronauts on a mission around the moon next month.
On February 28, Iran fired around 182 ballistic missiles in a single day. That number has since fallen to single digits, with just nine launches recorded on a recent day.