Artemis II rocket workforce

Published: April 2026Estimated reading time: 4 minutes NASA’s X-59 low-boom supersonic demonstrator has resumed flight testing after a cockpit warning light that cut short its second mission was traced to an instrumentation installation error rather than an actual aircraft systems fault. The issue temporarily interrupted the aircraft’s early envelope expansion program, but the test campaign […]

Published: April 2026Estimated reading time: 4 minutes New Orleans plays critical role in NASA’s next moon mission NEW ORLEANS — As NASA prepares for the launch of Artemis II, the first crewed mission in the Artemis program, attention is turning to the extensive manufacturing effort behind the rocket—much of which has taken place in Louisiana.