Engineers are getting ready to put the pressure on hardware for the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, as part of a rigorous test series to ensure each structure can withstand ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank to its limits ...

RS-25 prime contractor L3Harris continues to ramp up production of new flight engine hardware at their Los Angeles area ...

NASA has conducted the first in a planned series of 12 ground-test firings to certify the upgraded Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engine for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. SLS is to ...

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NASA is planning an uncrewed test flight for NASA's Artemis program — which aims to return humans to the Moon. The uncrewed Artemis I mission will be the first flight of the agency's Space Launch ...

For the sake of the engineers that have worked on it, I hope the SLS gets to fly once. I fully expect Starship to reach orbit first and demonstrate first stage recovery and, if we're really lucky, ...

Do it right, do it safe. That should be the fucking mantra. Or do we need another Challenger disaster to prove that "urgency" is hard on human lives and the space program in general? Click to expand..