When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS ... but those don’t make a rocket stage any more than the Shuttle External Tank did by itself. (Photo Caption: Major join 2 of ...

MPS performed well with fine-tuning The big orange rocket looks like the Space Shuttle’s less enormous orange External Tank, but among ... a TVC hydraulic pressure drop. That wasn’t unexpected ...