They will help to contain and protect the vehicle and surrounding pad structures from the solid rocket boosters during liftoff ... on the MLs for the Block 2 SLS is not expected until the 2030s ...

"Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about 45 metric tons to 'trans-lunar injection' which is about the same performance as the SLS Block 2 ...

(Photo Caption: SLS Block 1 Crew configuration ... already manufactured and most of the motor segments for the EM-2 boosters already through propellant casting. The RS-25 engines for the second ...

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 ...

NASA fired up its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket booster motor in a rain of fire on June 28. The SLS is the most powerful rocket ever built, and NASA plans to use it to take astronauts to deep ...

The 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust during liftoff, the agency says. The timeline for the delay-plagued Artemis moon landing program last ...

Faced with growing uncertainty over the future of Artemis, NASA this week showed off the progress of the Artemis II Space Launch System ... booster was fully integrated into High Bay 2 inside ...