The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter, which connects the rocket’s core stage to the ... Salvador's biggest port.It will also invest to overhaul La Union, a port in the east of the ...

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.

ML-2 is needed to transport NASA's enormous Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket to the launch pad. The OIG report highlights significant cost overruns and delays. Initially projected to cost $ ...

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 ...

In 2019, NASA awarded a $383 million contract to Bechtel to design and build a second mobile launcher that will be used to transport the SLS rocket to its launchpad for the upcoming Artemis 4 ...

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 ...

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Friday from the Santa Barbara County coast in an early morning launch through low clouds.

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 ...

OIG's report focuses on SLS Block 1B, an upgraded version of the original SLS rocket that flew to the moon and back (sans astronauts) in 2022. Upgraded for 40% better payload capacity, Block 1B is ...

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 ...

Even while NASA is struggling with Boeing’s new crewed Starliner spacecraft, it is continuing work on another key piece of ...

The core stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is slated to launch astronauts around the moon since the Apollo era, was rolled out of the space agency’s Michoud Assembly ...