Welcome to Edition 8.33 of the Rocket Report! NASA officials seem optimistic about launching the Artemis II mission next month, so confident that they will forgo another fueling test on the Space Launch System rocket to check the integrity of fickle seals in a liquid hydrogen loading line.

Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation's human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.

The Artemis 2 mission launch has been delayed until at least April due to issues with the rocket's upper stage. This mission will be the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, sending four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon. The rollback ...

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,

Russia finished repairing a damaged launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the country’s only site capable of sending crewed rockets into space.