Rocket Lab USA (NASDAQ:RKLB) stock is up 9% today, rising from $73.60 to $80, as NASA contract momentum, new technology launches, and a high-conviction signal from the company’s CEO drive the space sector higher.

Blue Origin plans in the years ahead to launch its 320-foot New Glenn rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

But so far, it’s looking like the rocket and spaceship needed for a lunar landing are getting there for NASA. The biggest remaining piece of the architecture, therefore, is a lunar lander. Known in NASA parlance as the Human Landing System,

NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch from Florida, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The mission will use the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA's most powerful rocket, for its first-ever crewed flight. Artemis II is a test ...

On the heels of Artemis' return to Earth from a journey around the moon, NASA Michoud is rolling out equipment for the next journey.

Can rocket launch from NASA, Cape Canaveral be seen in Fort Myers, 245 miles away? Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and ULA Atlas V have liftoffs in April 2026.

How did NASA’s Space Launch System rocket perform? Nearly perfectly. Was the Orion spacecraft up to the job of flying to the Moon and back? Absolutely. Will engineers need to make any changes before the next Artemis mission?

"This is the least transparent NASA budget request I've ever seen — and I've literally looked through every single one since 1960."