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While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...
Boeing was selected in 2012 to build SLS’s “core stage,” which is the hulking orange fuselage that houses most of the massive engines that give the rocket its first burst of power at liftoff.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...
The SLS rocket has become a poster child for critics of NASA who say the agency has become a "jobs program." By design, more than a decade ago, ...
The Saturn V is probably NASA's most famous rocket, with its iconic 363-foot (110-meter) profile showing up in everything space from Lego models to wall posters and mobile games.
NASA's Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.
NASA's newest rocket makes launch pad debut 01:52. NASA's new SLS moon rocket, the most powerful in agency history, was rolled out to launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center overnight Thursday ...
NASA destroyed its pricey Space Launch System rocket during testing, but it was totally planned. The space agency has to push hardware beyond its limits to know just how much it can endure, and it ...
Last week, NASA awarded one of its main subcontractors on the SLS project, Northrop Grumman (NOC 0.14%), a $3.2 billion contract to build booster rockets for five SLS rockets that will participate ...
The tentative first launch date for the SLS is November 2021. So, NASA just announced that it’s going to broadcast the static fire test of its new SLS rocket to the public.