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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 ...

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 $ ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...