SLS Education and Outreach

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SLS 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

Four aluminum domes, each created using innovative friction stir welding processes, are seen in this view of the Marshall Space Flight Center Advanced Welding and Manufacturing Facility.

Friction Stir Welding Unites Reliability, Affordability

NASA's Space Launch System is moving further in development faster thanks to proven advanced technologies like friction stir welding.

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Brief J2X engine test on May 16 2012 at Stennis Space Center

J-2X Engine: Shake, Rattle and Roar

The shake, rattle and roar was brief, but the J-2X test on May 16 at Stennis Space Center moved NASA ever closer to deep space.

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NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10, marking another step in SLS development, the next-generation rocket that will carry humans deeper into space than ever before.

NASA Continues J-2X Powerpack Testing

NASA conducted a long duration test of the J-2X powerpack, 340 seconds total, at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on May 10.

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The Orion Ground Test Vehicle shows the Orion skeleton used for pathfinding operations in preparation for the Orion spaceflight test vehicle slated for Exploration Flight Test, or EFT1, in 2014.

NASA Conducts Tests on Orion Service Module

NASA engineers are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions.

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J2X engine test at Stennis Space Center on April 26, 2012

NASA Begins Second Round of Testing on J-2X Engine

NASA has kicked off the next round of J-2X testing, gathering data on the engine nozzle extension, the test stand "clamshell" and start/shutdown.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden takes an up close look at the first development J-2X engine on the A-2 Test Stand at Stennis, where the engine is being prepared for a second round of testing. Pictured with Bolden is A-2 Test Stand Director Skip Roberts.

J-2X Engine Ready For Second Test Series

The J-2X engine is back on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center, ready for a more extensive round of tests.

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The avionics subsystem and hardware are cleared for SLS Flight Control Test 1.

SLS Avionics Test Paves Way for Full-Scale Booster

NASA has completed the first test of solid rocket booster avionics for the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle.

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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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