NASA Clears Its Artemis Moon Rocket for an April Launch
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Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at least, the changes appear to be quite sensible. Canceling the big, new upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket and replacing it with a commercial upper stage,
From Artemis IV onward, the new upper stage will be used instead of the existing interim cryogenic propulsion stage.
NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at approximately 8 p.m. EST on February 25,