If the world sees Orion’s Exploration Mission 1 completed on the back of just a single Falcon Heavy, at 1/10th the cost of flying on the SLS, it would arguably be more humiliating for the agency ...

While the Falcon Heavy doesn't have as much payload capacity as the SLS, it could still potentially get a smaller version of the same mission to Titan. Ultimately, as access to space gets cheaper ...

The lights may be starting to go out for NASA's Space Launch System program. On Wednesday, one of the Republican space policy leaders most consistently opposed to commercial heavy lift rockets ...

It was also used by the space shuttle before it was leased by SpaceX for Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and future Starship launches. The March 13-14 total lunar eclipse was visible from most of the ...

Watching Space X's Falcon Heavy launch, the future suddenly materialized in front of me. For years, space nerds have heard about this huge new rocket with three boosters that could land back on ...

The SLS rocket costs NASA $3 billion a year even ... and possesses at least one rocket (Falcon Heavy) capable of reaching the moon, as well as a second rocket (Starship) that's undergoing test ...

NASA is expected to award the contract to build the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket, announced David Dutcher, head of the SLS program, to around 800 employees working on the project.

SpaceX launched itself into the public consciousness with the Falcon 9, a highly reliable ... total liftoff thrust of 74,000 kN. NASA's Space Launch System is expected to have 39,000 kN of thrust ...

The SLS, which will carry out the Artemis 1 mission ... manned missions and for flights of the company's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket, using three Falcon 9 rocket cores bolted together.