NASA As for LC-39B, it has been outfitted for multiple vehicles, but its primary purpose will be to host the gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, a Saturn-V-sized monster that will send ...

Ending the Space Launch System’s decades-long drain on the United States’ limited spaceflight budget should be a high priority during the transition from President Joe Biden to President-elect ...

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 ...

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It was all done in just 60 seconds. NASA created the massive fountain as part of a test for its Space Launch System, scheduled to launch for the first time in 2020. It will be the largest ...

The simple answer is that the size of the necessary balloon is too large for the existing launch platforms. But a team from Boeing, the prime contractor on the Space Launch System (SLS), believes ...

Saturn V stood at 363 feet tall. Meanwhile, NASA's upcoming Space Launch System (SLS), which will launch astronauts to the moon no earlier than 2026, reaches just above New Glenn at 322 feet tall.

NASA completed a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, continuing a critical test series to support future SLS (Space Launch System) missions to the moon and ...