The real SLS first ... is the crew access arm (partially constructed using Lego roller coaster track for gantry lattice work), which the astronauts use to board the Orion spacecraft; then the ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

On Monday, NASA had planned to attempt the first test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful megarocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft. This is the Artemis I mission, and if ...

Nasa says the SLS is "the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts ... vehicle's massive booster stage was caught in a pair of robotic arms as it fell back from space to the company's launchpad ...

Historically, however, SLS and Orion spacecraft development has received substantial funding from a broad coalition; the program supports more than 69,000 jobs nationwide as of 2019. But critics ...

On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets over the last decade—as an alternative to NASA's large SLS rocket—has ...

The first flight set will fly on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), the first integrated flight of SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft ... to our pyrotechnic safe and arm device,” Foote explained.

as a moon lander that would ferry them from the Orion spacecraft — which launches atop SLS — down to the lunar surface. SpaceX’s deals with NASA, however, are fixed-price, meaning the ...

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry ...

The primary contractor for the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, is preparing for the possibility that NASA cancels the long-running program. On Friday, with less than an hour's notice, David ...

Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon Boeing is preparing to issue layoff notices to roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System (SLS) — the massive rocket ... who is the Orion program manager ...