The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The core stage of NASA's next Space Launch System (SLS) rocket recently completed integration with the vehicle's side ...

The long-awaited milestone allows EGS and Jacobs to work towards putting the whole Orion/SLS vehicle together and beginning months of testing to get it ready for the launch of Artemis 1.

An overall status review is currently planned for mid-September of this year to see if stacking of the SLS for Artemis II can begin. Core Stage-2 leaves Michoud The stage was rolled out of the ...

The SLS is supposed to be the rocket platform that ... it’s even harder to imagine any of this coming together in time. The Artemis missions will eventually happen, and NASA astronauts are ...

That doesn’t mean there won’t be changes. Already there have been signs the SLS rocket, could be cut out of the Artemis program. Boeing signaled earlier this year it was prepared to lay off as ...

While SpaceX’s in-development Starship has since surpassed that liftoff thrust, SLS remains the most-powerful rocket to ever send a payload into orbit. That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I ...

The program's first crewed lunar landing is penciled in for the Artemis III mission, again using SLS and Orion, but adding a new piece: SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket will be used as a human ...

When it’s all stacked, NASA will move the SLS out of those high bay doors of the VAB and on its way to the launch pad. After a couple of years of delays, NASA’s now hoping to launch Artemis II ...