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

The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed Sunday alongside two solid rocket boosters at ... converted from the Space Shuttle Program, and the two boosters provide 8.8 million pounds of thrust ...

ULA's Vulcan rocket has been certified by the US Space Force for national security ... there was an issue inside the nozzle on the solid rocket booster. Unlike SpaceX Falcon 9 — which is fully ...

NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together ... side of the core stage are twin five-segment solid rocket boosters, which were earlier stacked on the ...

United Launch Alliance launches its next-generation Vulcan rocket on its January 2024 maiden flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force ... Grumman-provided solid rocket booster.

Finally, ground crews lowered the rocket between the Space Launch System’s twin solid rocket boosters already stacked on a mobile launch platform inside High Bay 3, where NASA assembled Space ...

United Launch Alliance had its new Vulcan rocket certified Wednesday by Space Force so it can begin ... a nozzle flying off a supporting solid rocket booster on the second launch added more ...