ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 16 (UPI) -- NASA's plan to test its new moon rocket fell short of a scheduled eight-minute test-firing Saturday in Mississippi, as the engines were shut down at just over a minute into the test. The 212-foot-high core stage of the rocket roared to life at 5:27 p.m. at the John C.…

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NASA’s head of human spaceflight Douglas Loverro has actually resigned unexpectedly just days before the agency’s first astronaut launch in almost a decade, raising concerns about its Artemis program. Mr Loverro leaves just 6 months into the role, throughout which time he led NASA’s fast procurement of private sector partners to help with the agency’s […]

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