If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has announced changes to its “baseline cost” for the SLS rocket, stating that ...

A similar, though more obvious easter egg was included with Lego's prior model of the SLS; designed for a younger builders, the 2022 Lego City Rocket Launch Center had white, red and green fuel ...

Standing at 322 feet tall when fully stacked, the SLS is NASA’s most powerful rocket to date and has already been on a test flight around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission in 2022.

That’s $6 billion more than initial estimates for the Moon rocket. The space agency has been exploring ways to reduce the cost of SLS by considering a launch service model for its operation.

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In 2020 former NASA administrator Charles Bolden told Politico that SLS would “go away” in this decade, because commercial firms would build “a much cheaper” rocket. That may well happen ...

Nasa has started assembling the first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on a launch platform ahead of its maiden flight next year. The SLS is the giant rocket that will send US astronauts back to ...

The space agency expects to use this larger version of the SLS rocket beginning with the Artemis IV mission, which is intended to deliver both a crewed Orion spacecraft as well as an element of ...

The core stage of NASA's SLS rocket includes four Space Shuttle-era RS-25 engines. Before launch, it will be joined with two solid rocket boosters, producing a combined 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

When built, SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever created by the space agency. But costs are spiraling out of control. NASA aims for its Orion spacecraft and its associated booster ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - NOVEMBER 06: NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft ... [+] aboard is illuminated by spotlights after sunset atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad ...

On August 21, the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter (LVSA) for the Space Launch System (SLS) left the Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA said t he adapter connects the rocket’s core stage to its ...