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 ...

The Space Launch System rocket, or SLS, is entering a critical year, with 2020 to see the completion and full-duration test firing of the Core Stage as well as the convergence of all flight ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boeing informed its employees working on NASA's Artemis program that it was preparing for as many as 400 layoffs connected to the giant rocket under development amid possible shakeups to the country's ...

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 ...

the “Rocket to Nowhere”, the super heavy-lift booster has long been a bone of contention for those in the industry. Designed as an evolution of core Space Shuttle technology, the SLS promised ...

Work continues on the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building where the Orion spacecraft has been mated to the European Service Module.