Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

Explore NASA's rich history and even feel the rumble of a launch at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

Rockets launch to space almost every day. All of this incredible innovation owes a debt to a modest experiment that took place 100 years ago: On March 16, 1926, American physicist and engineer (and occasional Scientific American contributor) Robert H.

In Florida, rockets launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Kennedy Space Center is in Brevard County, an hour east of Orlando, and nicknamed the Space Coast. Palm Beach County, nicknamed the Gold Coast of Florida ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts — three space station veterans and a Canadian rookie — stand out even in an astronaut corps full of super achievers.

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset: to be the first nation to put boots on the lunar surface.

NASA astronauts are gearing up to fly around the moon for the first time in more than a half-century. The 10-day Artemis mission aboard the Orion spacecraft won’t land on the moon or even orbit it. But it’s the first step for future moon landings.