“The plumes of the vehicle as you’ve probably seen when the rocket launches and ... Artist rendering of the SLS Block 1 vehicle, customized to the Block 1 Cargo configuration with the short ...

which will see SLS move from the Block 1 vehicle to the Block 1B rocket in the mid-2020s. Just this month NASA confirmed that plan by publishing a solicitation for ML2. “NASA’s purpose for ML2 ...

Pace said NASA should seek to use commercial providers of heavy lift launch so that NASA can send "multiple" crew and cargo missions to the Moon each year. He notes that the SLS rocket is not ...

"Something entirely new is needed." The Artemis 1 SLS rocket ignites as seen from the press site at Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, 2022. | Credit: Josh Dinner — NASA's Artemis 1 SLS megarocket ...