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The newly-announced NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket from LEGO does something that no prior LEGO set of the moon-bound vehicle has done before: launch! By turning a crank, the completed model climbs off its platform and heads toward space, separating its three stages along the way. Developed with NASA and ESA, the 632-piece kit will retail for $59.99 when its lands in stores on Jan. 1, 2026.
: The pair of twin rocket boosters that will power the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon can now properly serve as candles for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and founding of the United States. As revealed on Tuesday (Dec. 2), both side-mounted boosters have been adorned with the official "America 250" logo marking the U.S.'s semiquincentennial.
: NASA's Artemis IV crew will land with and deploy a small, four-wheel rover, becoming the first astronauts to work alongside a robot on a celestial body other than Earth. Lunar Oupost's MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, will support University of Colorado Boulder studies into the behavior of moon dust and plasma on the surface. The Artemis IV MAPP will be Colorado-based Lunar Outpost's Lunar Voyage 5 mission.
: The "white room" that the next moon-bound astronauts will use to enter their spacecraft on the launch pad has been painted to display the Artemis program logo. NASA techs, working high above the ground inside Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, applied the red, blue and silver emblem to one of the environmental enclosure's exterior walls. The logo will be visible to spectators who watch Artemis SLS launches.
