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 ...

The new Nasa document outlines Phase 1 of the US plan ... Shortly after Orion separates from the upper-stage of the SLS rocket - known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage - astronauts ...

Nasa has started assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch platform ahead of its maiden flight next year. The SLS is the giant rocket that will send US astronauts back to ...

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 ...

As a new administration looms, NASA's Artemis II SLS moon rocket is ready for stacking inside the VAB. The goal is a 2026 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following completion of certification testing in October 2020 of the computer system for the first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, teams are now working on upgrades for future ...