SLS Development RS-25 Engine Ignites for Successful Full Duration Test Fire #6

By Mike Killian, on August 13th, 2015

The world’s most efficient rocket engine came to life again today, unleashing 512,000 pounds of thrust and a thunderous roar across southern Mississippi and NASA’s Stennis Space Center during a 535-second full power test fire. The same engine that powered the space shuttle so reliably for years, the RS-25, will again be employed […]

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NASA and Industry Teams Set for Orion Launch in 2014 and SLS First Flight in 2017

By Press Release, on February 7th, 2014

Flying in its ‘Block I’ configuration, with four Space Shuttle-era Main Engines, a pair of five-segment Solid Rocket Boosters and a Delta-derived interim Cryogenic Propulsion System (iCPS), the first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) in December 2017 will despatch the first crew-capable vehicle to the Moon since the Apollo era. Image […]

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