Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryNASA Administrator Charles Bolden takes an up close look at the first development J-2X engine on the A-2 Test Stand...J-2X engine 10001 is returning back to the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center for its second round...J-2X engine 10001 is returning back to the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center for its second round...Members of the Space Launch System (SLS) team discuss the machining of an aluminum adapter ring similar to the design...A specialized state-of-the-art milling tool grinds away at an aluminum ring with a diameter of nearly 20 feet at NASA's...As an adapter ring designed for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) is machined at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in...NASA conducted a 260-second J-2X engine test at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on June 13.During a record-breaking test on June 8, 2012, engineers throttled the J-2X powerpack up and down several times to explore...Dan Mitchell, left, an SLS integrated avionics and software discipline lead engineer and a manager of the Software Development group...Paul Doyle, right, Yvette Binford, center, and Ken King integrate and debug the SLS avionics software. After the Software Avionics...Markeeva Morgan, left, avionics hardware lead for SLS Core Stage element office, and Walter Robinson, command and data handling hardware...Discussing the plan to fine-tune the SLS launch vehicle's flight software are, from left, Kurt Jackson, SLS integrated avionics and...RS-25 series rocket engine No. 2059 is unloaded and positioned at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on April...RS-25 series rocket engine No. 2059 is unloaded and positioned at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi on April...RS-25 engines, formerly used as space shuttle main engines, line the the Space Shuttle Main Engine Processing Facility at NASA's...Mindy Niedermeyer, chair of the Space Launch System Advanced Development NASA Research Announcement at the Marshall Space Flight Center in...A RS-25 rocket engine arrives at NASA's Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi on Jan. 17 for future testing and...In February 2012, Space Launch System Program Manager Todd May shares SLS progress on the core stage with NASA Deputy...In November 2011, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured the Thrust Vector Control Test Lab and the Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Lab.NASA and ATK have conducted three full-scale tests of a five-segment, solid rocket motor at the ATK Aerospace Systems test...ATK of Brigham City, Utah, is performing the first inspections of metal cases that will be used for NASA's Space...Test technicians in ATK's instrumentation room at the Space Launch System booster prime contractor's Promontory, Utah, test facility review data...The avionics subsystem and hardware are cleared for Flight Control Test 1, testing the avionics and controls for NASA's Space...A RS-25D engine in the Engine Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., is awaiting placement in a transportation canister...Technicians oversee the installation of a Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne RS-25D engine into a transportation canister in the Engine Processing Facility...
