Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at least, the changes appear to be quite sensible. Canceling the big, new upper stage for the Space Launch System rocket and replacing it with a commercial upper stage,

CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA is revising its Artemis lunar exploration initiative with a new mission to dock one or both human lunar landing systems with a crewed Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) ahead of landing astronauts on the Moon.

NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at approximately 8 p.m. EST on February 25,