for the Core Stage, SLS transformed the other launch elements from Shuttle into a bigger, in-line rocket. “A lot of the basics are the same for SLS as it was for Shuttle,” Jonathan Looser ...

While SLS has launched once after more than a decade of planning ... Orion is being constructed under contract by Lockheed Martin. Boeing works on the rocket's core stage, but that has not been the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s long-awaited Space Launch System (SLS) was tested in Mississippi this past ...

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 ...

NASA succeeded spectacularly in the third attempt to launch its Space Launch System rocket on an uncrewed round ... during the process of fueling up the core stage. Mission managers said ...

NASA’s $24 billion SLS program is developing a super-heavy lift rocket being used in its Artemis program to send astronauts back to the moon. The SLS program is receiving heightened scrutiny under the ...

Boeing is the prime contractor on the SLS rocket’s core stage, which when combined with solid rocket boosters from Northrop Grumman provide the rocket with 8.8. million pounds of thrust at ...

Boeing notified employees it is planning to issue layoff notices "to align with revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations." Boeing is preparing to issue layoff notices to roughly 200 ...