Development and production of the initial flight units of the SLS Core Stage and the Orion European Service Module (ESM) were for a long time the pacing items in the schedule for their first ...

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA's second Space Launch ...

With the final major Core Stage test completed, the SLS Boosters are stacked in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and fueling of the Orion spacecraft was expected to begin. EGS and Jacobs are ...

The Orion will come within 80 miles of the lunar ... agency said in a comment accompanying the video. The core stage of NASA’s SLS rocket is a key component of the vehicle as it’s the main ...

During “Exploration Mission 1”, the SLS is only responsible for getting the Orion, its Service Module, and the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) into orbit around the Earth ...

The Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule are both “coming together,” according to NASA. NASA offered a rough timeline of when it expects to actually see the two spacecraft head ...

Boeing makes the Core Stage for the rocket, but SLS development has been slow and ... send astronauts to the Moon for now. Aside from the Orion capsule on the top of the stack, it is also entirely ...

NASA received the upper stage for the agency's Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Mar. 4 supplied by Boeing and ...

On Monday, NASA had planned to attempt the first test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful megarocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft. This is the Artemis I mission, and if ...

Cubesats sitting in the Orion stage adapter. Credit: NASA, public domain The mission will serve as a full test of the combination of the Space Launch System and the Orion module. The aim is that ...

NASA and its partners are pressing to speed up the timeline for the Artemis II launch that will fly humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as the program competes with Trump ...