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 first attempt to load the rocket stage with propellant ... (Photo Caption: On the left, the upper four-fifths of NASA’s first SLS Core Stage in the B Test Stand’s number two position ...

NASA retrofits the stand for each new rocket: At its zenith is the extension built to accommodate the SLS core stage. Once the core stage is installed, the test will do more than assess how the ...

Northrop Grumman's Utah facility manufactures and tests solid rocket engines, like those used to launch NASA's Space Launch ...

The Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 engine was fired up for the “final round of certification testing ahead of production ...

more The original plan was for NASA to have both the Orion spacecraft and the SLS rocket system ready to test by mid 2020. The two would pair up for Orion’s first test flight around the Moon ...

This was the third successful test of the RS-25 engines. When SLS launches ... That might sound like a lot, but this is the rocket that NASA might one day use to send the first astronauts to ...

shows an almost purple plume emanating from the booster of NASA's Space Launch System rocket during a test on Jun 28. The rocket motor NASA tested is designed to be part of the world's most ...

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NASA unveiled its new rocket system on Thursday ... ahead of the wet dress rehearsal test. Despite being taller than the Statue of Liberty, the SLS acting as Artemis I’s rocket isn’t the ...

Learn about NASA's successful integration of the launch vehicle stage adapter to the existing components of the Artemis II ...

For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has arrived at the launch site in Florida.