Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryNASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is...The Orion Stage Adapter structural test article is unloaded from NASA’s Super Guppy cargo aircraft at Redstone Arsenal Airfield in...NASA's Super Guppy aircraft arrives at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Aug. 10. The specialized aircraft can...A full Moon is in view from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 14,...NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully conduct a full-scale, static test of a five-segment booster motor for future flights of NASA’s...A single solid rocket booster motor fires up at Northrop Grumman’s test facility in Promontory, Utah, on July 21.Teams installed the flight support booster for future versions of the SLS rocket’s solid rocket boosters into a test stand...On May 24, 2022, the core stage production team moved the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section for Artemis...The 10 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor segments that will help launch the Artemis III crew on their mission...This close-up view shows the SLS rocket for Artemis I inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)...NASA engineers successfully completed a subscale solid rocket motor test June 1, 2022, at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in...NASA completed manufacturing of a hydrogen tank barrel that will be tested as a weld confidence article for the Space...NASA joined Space Launch System rocket’s core stage forward assembly with the 130-foot liquid hydrogen tank for the Artemis II...NASA ‘Worm’ Added to Moon Rocket BoostersNASA powered up its third RS-25 engine hot fire test of the new year Feb. 24, on the Fred Haise...The crawlerway is a 4.2 mile road of river rocks that paves the way for rockets from the Vehicle Assembly...NASA’s Space Launch System rocket integrated with the Orion spacecraft will travel 4.2 miles on the crawlerway from the Vehicle...Technicians are preparing to connect two major parts of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s Artemis II core stage. On...NASA conducted its first RS-25 engine hot fire test of the new year Jan. 19 on the Fred Haise Test...NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy get a look at the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage...Casting and assembly of solid rocket booster, shown her, for the Artemis IV mission is underway at Northrop Grumman’s factory...The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) – for Artemis II arrived at the Space Coast on July 28, 2021. It...For the first three mission stages adapters help connect and protect the various parts of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket...Engines for early Artemis missions are being prepared for flight at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility at Stennis Space Center near Bay...Engineers at RUAG Space USA completed a test article for the development of the Space Launch System rocket universal stage...NASA has completed assembly of the upper, or forward, part of the core stage for the Space Launch System (SLS)...On launch day, the SLS Engineering Support Center team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will support...Team members in the Space Launch System (SLS) Engineering Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.The first four Artemis missions will use NASA’s 16 upgraded RS-25 engines that previously powered space shuttle flights. For future...NASA conducts a full-duration RS-25 hot fire test on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center on Sept. 30....At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion’s newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is lifted...The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for the second flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket arrived in Florida on...The flight computer application software for NASA’s Artemis I mission is tested at the System Integration Lab at NASA’s Marshall...NASA conducted its sixth RS-25 single-engine hot fire Aug. 5 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near...NASA conducted a fifth RS-25 single-engine hot fire July 14 as a continuation of its ongoing seven-part test series, supporting...Teams at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently completed welding the launch vehicle stage adapter for Artemis...Crews with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs stacked the launch vehicle stage adapter atop the core stage June...Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs lower the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage – the largest...NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) team fully stacked three hardware elements together May 24 to form the top of the...NASA conducted its fourth RS-25 single-engine hot fire test of the year on May 20, 2021, a continuation of its...