First Space Shuttle Launch

NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket arrives back at launch pad

A century after the first rocket launch, Ars staffers pick their favorites

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago.

· 3h

Nasa's Artemis II rocket rolls back to launch pad ahead of second launch attempt

Space on MSN · 4h

NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket arrives back at the launch pad

· 4h

Nasa prepares Artemis II rocket for moon launch after delay

Nasa has, for the second time this year, rolled its colossal moon rocket from its hangar to the launchpad, hoping to send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around mission next month.

· 4h

Artemis II rocket rolling to launchpad for NASA moon mission: When is launch date?

· 8h

Nasa hauls repaired Moon rocket back to pad ahead of planned launch in April

· 5h

Artemis II rocket rolls out to KSC launch pad

Dr. Addie Dove, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida, joins Good Day Orlando to talk about the importance of the mission.

· 8h

Repaired Artemis II rocket returns to launch pad

· 8h

NASA's Artemis II SLS rocket rolls out to KSC pad ahead of moon mission

4don MSN

The first modern rocket launched 100 years ago, beginning a century of both innovations and challenges for spaceflight

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H.

YouTube on MSN

How did the Space Shuttle launch work?

Explore the intricate journey and technology of the Space Shuttle program, including launch procedures, primarily at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This video covers the process of getting the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth.