Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryEngineers test the booster avionics through two-minute simulations of the SLS in flight.Managers discuss NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster avionics system at ATK's Clearfield, Utah, lab.Artist concept of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters firing their separation rockets and pushing away from the...A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage fires up for another round of acoustic testing...Technicians install Developmental Flight Instrumentation Data Acquisition Units in Marshall Space Flight Center's Systems Integration and Test Facility.Two-percent scale models of the Space Launch System solid rocket boosters and core stage RS-25 engines have been designed and...The 2-percent scale models of the SLS boosters and core stage engines are ignited for a 100 millisecond, hot-fire test.Crews at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center prepare the adapter for testing.For the structural loads test, the adapter was attached with lines running in different directions on the hardware.The test article stage adapter is lowered into a test stand in the East Test Area at NASA's Marshall Space...The completed adapter for the Orion spacecraft is prepared for its first test flight later this fall.Michael Martin, an InfoPro Corp. employee supporting Marshall's Test Laboratory, installs a leak check fixture on one of the liquid...A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited for five seconds to measure the affects acoustic...A thrust frame adapter is lifted onto the A-1 Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in the closing days...A RS-25 thrust frame adapter is positioned into place for mounting onto the A-1 Test Stand as NASA’s Stennis Space...NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, center, views progress on the Space Launch System at Michoud Assembly Facility.Hardware, software and operating systems for NASA's Space Launch System recently were integrated and powered up for an inaugural run.A test engineer runs an avionics flight simulation to see how SLS will perform during launch.NASA engineers buckled an aluminum-lithium cylinder similar in size to fuel tanks for the largest rockets ever built.NASA engineers prepare a test article for a series of tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.Engineers position a 27.5-foot-diameter cylinder for the first full-scale Shell Buckling and Knockdown Factor Project test.The diaphragm for Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1 was joined to an adapter prototype for pressurized testing.An F/A-18 research jet simulated various flight conditions that NASA's Space Launch System may experience from the launch pad to...Tannen VanZwieten, 31, a native of Pompano Beach, Fla., began her NASA career in 2008.Jeb Orr, 31, who was born in Philadelphia and moved all over the United States as a military kid, considers...Eric Gilligan, 23, a native of Roxbury, N.J., has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University in...John Wall, 30, a native of Huntsville, is following the family footsteps of working for NASA.During EFT-1, Orion will travel to approximately 3,600 miles above Earth’s surface, farther than any spacecraft built for humans has...Wind tunnel tests at Ames Research Center will be used to enhance the design and stability of NASA's Space Launch...The Orion's stage adapter diaphragm leaves a manufacturing facility at Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Wash.Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center unwrap the Orion adapter diaphragm Sept. 27.This artist concept shows boosters separating from NASA’s Space Launch System.During the liftoff transition testing of a SLS model, engineers used a technique for studying airflow streamlines called smoke flow...Four RS-25 engines will power the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) -- NASA's new heavy-lift launch vehicle.Engineers prepare to hot-fire test a 3-D printed rocket part on Test Stand 115 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.Preparing a 3-D printed rocket injector for a hot fire test.A 3-D printed rocket part blazes to life during a hot-fire test.Fabrication is underway on liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and related piping for RS-25 engine testing on the A-1 Test Stand...Fabrication is underway on liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and related piping for RS-25 engine testing on the A-1 Test Stand...A scale model of NASA's SLS Core Stage test stand completed wind tunnel testing Aug. 8.
