NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket completed another milestone on its way to launch with the Umbilical Release and Retract Test (URRT). The URRT was performed on the rocket on September 19 ...

Unfortunately, NASA’s giant rocket, decades in development but flown exactly once, is likely to survive the transition. In its current form, SLS largely duplicates capacity available elsewhere ...

Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule. 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 ...

SLS merged the MPTA aft fuselage and External Tank elements into an inline rocket stage. The left image shows the orbiter aft fuselage built and integrated for the MPTA being lifted into the B-2 ...

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 ...

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

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 ...

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 ...

When it was proposed in 2011, the SLS seemed so simple. Rather than spending the time and money required to develop a completely new rocket, the super heavy-lift booster would be based on lightly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently released slow-motion footage of an SLS booster rocket engine being tested. Part of the Space Launch System scheduled to launch in 2018, NASA left the ...

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 ...