Prime contractor Boeing rolled out the second Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage on July 16 from the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) and secured it to NASA’s Pegasus barge for transportation ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA Space Launch System, the rocket system that will eventually provide the means for ...

The January 16th “Green Run” test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) was intended to be the final milestone before the super heavy-lift booster would be moved to Cape Canaveral ahead of its ...

The huge Mobile Launcher (ML) that will be used to launch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is leaning. However, NASA insists it is structurally sound and does not require modifications to ...

Nasa says the SLS is "the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly to the moon in a single launch." But its expense has been criticized: each SLS launch is estimated to cost ...

The massive core section of the SLS has shuttle heritage in it Nasa has finished assembling the main structural components for its largest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V. Engineers at the ...

Under NASA’s current blueprints, which have come under fire from myriad directions over the last several years, the SLS will blast the Orion into orbit around the Moon, where the capsule will ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Space Launch System's design has been completed and is ready for construction, bringing deep space flight into the present. The two boosters will be taller ...

the 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lowered into High Bay 2 at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the move to High Bay 2, ...