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 ...

In place of the complex winged Orbiter, crew and cargo would ride atop the rocket using an upper stage and capsule not unlike what was used in the Apollo program. The SLS core stage is rolled out ...

Of the two new rockets that had their try-outs this week ... since 2023 easily beat the poky pace of the SLS, and NASA has enough faith in the rocket that it tapped the upper stage of the Starship ...

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 ...

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 ...

A second Mobile Launcher (ML-2) for NASA’s Space Launch System ... cut on the Exploration Upper Stage Umbilical (EUSU), which is a major modification that caters for the Block 1B rocket ...

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 ...

Teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program continue stacking the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket's twin solid rocket booster motor segments for the agency's Artemis II mission ...