Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryThe avionics subsystem and hardware is checked out at one of Orbital ATK’s test facilities before the successful Sept. 22...Artist concept of the Block I configuration of the SLS in flight.Marshall crew members prepare to install a LVSA structural test article panel onto the weld fixture.Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have successfully completed base heating testing on 2-percent scale models...A crane positions the first steel piece for twin towers of a 215-foot-tall structural test stand for NASA's Space Launch...The RS-25 engine fires up for a 535-second test Aug. 27, 2015 at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St....NASA’s countdown to deep space continued today with a 535-second test of its Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine...The aft segment for a full-scale version of a five-segment solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System has been...The critical design review team, including members of the Standing Review BoardNASA's Space Launch System Program Manager Todd May and others on the critical design review teamConstruction 'Fueling' Up for SLS Core Stage Hydrogen TankGore panels, provided to Boeing by supplier MT Aerospace of GermanyBoeing technicians use cranes and specially designed lift fixtures to move a dome cap onto the Circumferential Dome Weld Tool...In auto racing parlance, NASA engineers put the “pedal to the metal” during a July 17 test of its Space...South Mississippi was hotter than usual on June 25 when the fire and heat produced by the longest test firing...Marshall Center engineers Jim Lydon, left, and Zach Jones work on a recently 3-D printed rocket part.The RS-25 engine fires up at the beginning of a 500-second test June 11 at NASA's Stennis Space Center near...Orbital ATK technicians detach the center forward segment from the forward segment of NASA's five-segment booster that fired up for...NASA began work May 13 on a major milestone in its preparation for testing the core stage of its new...Sparks fly as a hydrogen burn-off igniter test is conducted May 5 at the Redstone Test Center on Redstone Arsenal...Crews at Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, complete a 250-foot-long metal canopy for NASA's Pegasus barge.Marshall Center engineers Jeremy Myers, left, and Jonathan Pryor set up cameras on the test stand at ATK's facilities in...: A screenshot of the cameras cycling through different settings during the two-minute booster firing.The successful March 11 test of a solid rocket motor for NASA’s Space Launch System, was the culmination of months...Crews lower the cryogenic tank onto a barge March 12 at NASA's dock on the Tennessee River.A massive cryogenic tank is loaded onto a truck at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to be moved to a...Fabrication recently was completed on the core stage simulator structural test article at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for...The SLS booster is being heated to 90 degrees Fahrenheit ahead of the March 11 qualification test at Orbital ATK's...Engineers at Orbital ATK prepare to test the largest, most powerful booster ever built for NASA's new rocket, the Space...Location of the thrust vector control actuators on the SLS RS-25 engine.NASA Marshall's Roger Parisa and Miranda Holton get the thrust vector control actuator ready for vibration testing.An Orbital ATK technician checks the avionics control panels at Orbital ATK’s Avionics Lab in Clearfield, Utah.Standing more than two stories tall and almost 8 feet in diameter, the composite test structure was pressurized with water...The successful test demonstrated that a composite case can withstand damage and still handle the stresses of space launch.Technicians remove a rounding fixture from the solid rocket motor center segment.An ATK technician installs one of more than 900 plies of insulation onto the inner diameter of an SLS booster...
