Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryNASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center...J-2X rocket engine testing continues at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi with the second in a series of tests...NASA is designing and building the Stage Adapter that will attach the Orion crew vehicle to the United Launch Alliance...On Feb. 22, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility at NASA's Marshall...Inspecting three-dimensional hardware and parts fashioned in the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing Rapid Prototyping Facility at Marshall.NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at...Test engineers hoist the J-2X engine for installation into the A-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.A J-2X engine, right, is being transported to the A-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.An ATK technician performs one last check on the avionics test article for solid rocket boosters in preparation for the...The gas generator from an F-1 engine is test-fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., on Jan....Yound engineers help disassemble a Saturn V F-1 engine at the Marshall Center's Propulsion Research Development Laboratory.Propulsion engineers Tim Duquette and Don Nave remove parts from an F-1 engine - the powerful American rocket engine that...The F1 gas generator is the part of the engine mounted just above the red box in this image.On Jan. 10, 2013, the Saturn V F-1 gas generator completed a 20-second hot-fire test at Marshall Space Flight Center...Engineers dressed in Apollo-style white shirts with black ties stand by a Saturn V F-1 engine.A Saturn V F-1 engine, originally stored at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington arrives at NASA's...Tim Livengood, a Boeing welding engineer, confirms setup on a friction stir weld test fixture at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility...A machine operator stands on the first test panel for the Space Launch System's liquid hydrogen tank at AMRO Fabricating...Employees at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., unpack four large metal rings that will be used to...Michael Hale, a quality assurance inspector with the Space Systems Department at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.,...The J-2X powerpack assembly was fired up one last time on Dec. 13 at NASA's Stennis Space Center, finishing a...The J-2X powerpack assembly was fired up one last time on Dec. 13 at NASA's Stennis Space Center, finishing a...NASA's Space Launch System buffet model in NASA's Langley Researcher Center's Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.A J-2X power pack assembly burns brightly during a hot fire test Nov. 27 at NASA's Stennis Space Center in...An engineering technician guides a circumferential weld of the "pathfinder" version of the adapter design that will be used on...Engineers conduct their first circumferential weld of the "pathfinder" version of the adapter design that will be used on test...The first test piece produced on the M2 Cusing Machine - a new Selective Laser Machine recently installed at the...Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center are learning how to operate the new Selective Laser Melting machine.Engineers using a state-of-the-art vertical welding tool at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., move a "pathfinder" version...Manager Mike Kynard explains how test personnel use working parts from an RS-25 engine to test the new engine control...Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space...ATK moves a segment of the solid rocket booster for assembly at the company's facility in Promontory, Utah.The forward segment of the qualification motor for NASA'S Space Launch System is transported through manufacturing and assembly at ATK's...ATK employees at the company's Promontory, Utah facility prepare a segment of a qualification motor for NASA's Space Launch System...Four aluminum domes, each created using innovative friction stir welding processes, are seen in this overhead view of the Marshall...Wind tunnel testing on the 70-metric-ton configuration of SLS, conducted at the Langley Research Center.The 70-metric-ton configuration of the SLS rocket, designed to carry the Orion spacecraft, is tested in the Trisonic Wind Tunnel...Engineers at the Marshall Center test the 130-metric-ton heavy-lift configuration of the Space Launch System rocket in the Trisonic Wind...As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also...As Olympic athletes converge on London with dreams of winning gold in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, NASA is also...