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The Next President Should End the ‘Senate’ Launch System Rocket
Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space ...
NASA's Artemis 2 Moon Rocket's Core Stage Exits Assembly Facility
The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the ...
Prediction: It's Time to Cancel Boeing's Mega Space Launch System Rocket
Boeing helped win the space race in 1969. Today, it may lack "a sufficient number of trained and experienced aerospace ...
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The SLS rocket just got more expensive
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has announced changes to its “baseline cost” for the SLS rocket, stating that ...
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NASA’s Next Rocket Launcher Project Is Going Off the Rails
In 2019, NASA awarded a $383 million contract to Bechtel to design and build a second mobile launcher that will be used to transport the SLS rocket to its launchpad for the upcoming Artemis 4 ...
The Rocket Factory: Inside NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Beyond
NASA is enhancing its Kennedy Space Center facilities to support the assembly of the SLS rocket for the Artemis missions, aiming to send the next astronauts to the Moon. This preparation includes vert ...
Scientific American4d
Why Is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon?
Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon on the first crewed test of NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule. Although the U.S. has had decades ...
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NASA has to be trolling with the latest cost estimate of its SLS launch tower
The space agency expects to use this larger version of the SLS rocket beginning with the Artemis IV mission, which is intended to deliver both a crewed Orion spacecraft as well as an element of ...
Space Coast Daily16d
Rocket Hardware for Future Artemis Flights Bound for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
NASA is making strides with the Artemis campaign as key components for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket continue to make ...
Digital Trends26d
Another piece of NASA’s mega moon rocket ships out
Standing at 322 feet tall when fully stacked, the SLS is NASA’s most powerful rocket to date and has already been on a test flight around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission in 2022.
Aviation Week25d
Costs For NASA SLS Mobile Launcher-2 Triple, IG Finds
Credit: NASA/David Zeiters CAPE CANAVERAL—NASA’s plan to build a second mobile launcher for its upgraded Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will cost the agency $1.8 billion—three times more ...
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Key SLS adapter departs Marshall Space Flight Center
Rocket components like the adapter are too big ... picking up hardware contributing to future Artemis missions. “From the SLS perspective, engineering is here, safety is here, the program ...