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Video: Future Frontier

Artist concept of SLS on the launchpad.

'Future Frontier' discusses the new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift launch vehicle and its importance to furthering NASA's exploration mission.

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Charting the Course

Graphic for PDF, Voyages, Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration

NASA's capability-driven approach is an innovative strategy that challenges the way we think about human space exploration and sets the stage for a new era of discovery.

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SLS Education and Outreach

Artist concept of a Space Launch System launch

Look to this site for images, lithographs, classroom resources and upcoming events to meet and interact with SLS personnel.

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SLS Monthly Highlights

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What's the Latest?

Read about the progress of the Space Launch System via "monthly highlights."

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Why We Explore

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Why Do We Explore?

From the time of our birth, humans have felt a primordial urge to explore -- to blaze new trails, map new lands, and answer profound questions about ourselves and our universe.

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Space Launch System Latest News and Features

The structural test article adapter is flipped at Marshall testing facility Building 4705.

Adapter 'Flips' for 2014 Exploration Flight Test

NASA engineers recently flipped a 1,000-pound adapter to prepare for Exploration Flight Test 1 in 2014 and Space Launch System flight in 2017.

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Engineers install J2X engine E10002 in the A1 test stand at Stennis Space Center.

A-1 Test Stand: First Full Engine in Nearly a Decade

Engineers have installed J-2X engine E10002 in the A-1 test stand at Stennis Space Center -- the first full engine installed in almost a decade.

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A test of the Saturn V first stage, S1C5, is conducted on Aug. 25, 1967 at Stennis Space Center.

Preparing for SLS Core Stage Testing

Before NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) flies to space on its inaugural mission in 2017, it will fly in place at Stennis Space Center.

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J 2X engine test firing on April 4, 2013, at Stennis Space Center

Hot Fire Tests Steer Space Launch System Engines

NASA has completed one chapter of next-generation rocket testing on the A-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center.

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A collection of four thrusters representing the core stage engines of the new Space Launch System are ignited at Test Stand 115 at the Marshall Center.

Space Launch System Begins Acoustic Testing

NASA test conductors are making progress on the agency's new rocket by listening closely to the roar of four thrusters.

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An adapter for the Orion spacecraft under construction at the Marshall Center

NASA Turns Up the Heat on SLS Construction

NASA engineers have had a busy winter assembling adapters that will assist with the initial test flight of Orion in 2014.

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A pogo z baffle for an RS25 engine

The Future of Exploration Starts With 3-D Printing

The latest in cutting-edge manufacturing is already making a significant impact in the future of space exploration.

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Space Launch System Image Galleries

  • Small solid rocket motor test at the Marshall Center on Mar. 14, 2012.

    SLS Images

    SLS development is underway across the nation. Watch the progress of the biggest, most capable rocket ever to be built in our extensive image gallery.

  • Artist's concept of NASA's Space Launch System initial crew vehicle launching from the Kennedy Space Center.

    SLS Artist Concepts

    Find the latest artists' concepts of the integrated SLS vehicle design, both for the initial 70-metric-ton lift capacity launch vehicle and the evolved 130-metric-ton rocket.

Space Launch System: Safe, Affordable, Sustainable

    Artist concept of SLS on launch pad The U.S. Space Launch System, or SLS, will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit. It also will back up commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station. Designed to be flexible for crew or cargo missions, the SLS will be safe, affordable, and sustainable, to continue America's journey of discovery from the unique vantage point of space. The SLS will take astronauts farther into space than ever before, while engaging the U.S. aerospace workforce here at home.

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