Rather than building an obsolescent, obscenely-over-budget jumbo rocket, NASA should turn to building truly innovative space ...

The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ICPS being loaded onto the SLS The SLS itself however is definitely in need of some work. The rocket was brought out to the pad for the first time on March 18th, where it was to conduct what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When built, SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever created by the space agency. But costs are spiraling out of control. NASA aims for its Orion spacecraft and its associated booster ...