Manufacturing and assembly development work for the Space Launch System (SLS) Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) is starting to ramp up at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans.
Each flight of the SLS will destroy four Shuttle-era RS-25 engines and two SRBs, simply because they were taking up space in a NASA warehouse. From a historical standpoint, this is abhorrent.
The NASA-developed flight software for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle successfully flew the program’s first launch on the Artemis I mission on Nov. 16. The vehicle’s ...
Credit: NASA Since the recent presidential election ... The speculation has been particularly intense regarding the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle.
Some past NASA ... close to launching the first astronaut on a new vehicle." In fact, NASA just pushed back the launch date for its first crewed Artemis mission, set to fly around the moon using SLS.
The weight may need to increase as NASA works with Bechtel to determine how much more robust the launcher needs to be to endure the power of the SLS rockets, which subjected the ML-1 to millions ...