By Mike Killian, on February 26th, 2021
Engineers carefully lowering the giant SLS Artemis-1 core stage onto the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, for the Green Run test campaign. Photo: NASA
Earlier this week, NASA and Boeing called off a planned Feb 25 second test fire of the space agency’s mammoth SLS moon rocket core stage, following […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 29th, 2020
Another critical component for NASA’s SLS heavylift rocket arrived in Florida on Wednesday, for launch on the Artemis-1 mission late next year. […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 22nd, 2020
@AerojetRdyne has completed its rocket engines & motors that will propel Artemis-2 & humans back to the Moon. […]
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By Mike Killian, on October 22nd, 2019
Engineers at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon. Photo Credit: NASA/Jude Guidry
NASA is full steam ahead with the Space Launch System, as years […]
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By Mike Killian, on July 2nd, 2019
An Orion test article launching atop a refurbished Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile solid rocket motor on the Ascent Abort-2 flight test, 2 July 2019 from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com
The sun wasn’t the only spectacular sight seen rising over Florida’s ‘Space […]
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By Jim Hillhouse, on June 11th, 2019
Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt with the U.S. flag and the Earth in the sky. Taken during the mission’s first EVA on the lunar surface on December 19, 1972. Photo: NASA
President Trump, in a tweet on June 7th at 1:38 PM, publicly put himself at odds with a policy directive that he himself […]
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By Mike Killian, on September 28th, 2017
Mars Base Camp is Lockheed Martin’s vision for sending humans to Mars in about a decade. The Mars surface lander called the Mars Accent Descent Vehicle (MADV) is a single-stage system that uses Orion systems as the command deck. It could allow astronauts to explore the surface for two weeks at a time […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 10th, 2017
RS-25 SLS test fire Aug 9, 2017. Credit: NASA
Testing of the new brain for the RS-25 engines that will help power the colossal Space Launch System (SLS) rocket uphill from launch pad 39B in the coming years has been on a roll at NASA’s Stennis Space Center all summer, and they just […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 7th, 2017
A flatbed truck carrying one of two new service platforms for NASA’s Space Launch System booster engines arrives at the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31, 2017. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill White
New service platforms for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) booster engines arrived recently at […]
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By Mike Killian, on July 20th, 2017
Artist rendering of the NextSTEP habitat docked with Orion in cislunar orbit as part of a concept for the Deep Space Gateway. Orion will serve as the habitat’s command deck in early missions, providing critical communications, life support and navigation to guide long-duration missions. Credits: Lockheed Martin
Last summer, NASA selected six companies […]
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