Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryLocated throughout the core stage, the avionics are the rocket's "brains," controlling navigation and communication during launch and flight.The first major piece of core stage hardware for NASA's Space Launch System rocket has been assembled and is ready...Aerojet Rocketdyne developmental RS-25 engine No. 0525 is readied for installation on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center...Engineers installed structural test hardware for NASA's deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, into a test stand at NASA's...An innovative robotic system sprayed thermal protection foam on the tank, shown here, that will hold the cryogenic liquid oxygen...With the historic Saturn IB rocket that paved the way for America’s first lunar missions in the background, NASA moved...NASA technicians have completed application of spray-on foam thermal insulation on the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter, which is being outfitted...The liquid hydrogen tank for NASA’s deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, makes a move for its next step in...NASA's Super Guppy aircraft prepares to depart the U.S. Army’s Redstone Airfield in Huntsville, Alabama, April 3, with flight hardware...This picture shows platforms inside the launch vehicle stage adaptor that will allow technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in...A structural test version of the intertank for NASA's new deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, arrives at NASA’s Marshall...The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the massive Space Launch System core stage, built at NASA's...NASA's barge Pegasus leaves the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, en route to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in...Connecting the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks, the intertank is built differently from the rest of the core stage....At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians with Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin welded together the first two...Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, flip the Orion stage adapter to install the adapter's diaphragm,...The Orion stage adapter flight hardware for NASA's Space Launch System has been outfitted and is ready to travel to...Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster Avionics Complete Key TestingOwen Brayson, an instrumentation technician for NASA's RS-25 prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, exhibits the pogo accumulator assembly, NASA's largest 3-D-printed...All four RS-25 engines that will power SLS for its first flight are ready to be integrated with the rocket's...Technicians practice operations with the RS-25 pathfinder engine that recently arrived at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.The core stage pathfinder, a full-scale, steel mockup of the SLS core stage, is at Michoud and ready for technicians...The liquid oxygen tank--shown here as technicians inside the tank complete final welds to plug holes left by the robotic...The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the...NASA completed major welding for the liquid hydrogen tank for the first Space Launch System mission at the agency’s Michoud...A NASA KAMAG transporter tractor with 96 wheels hauls the Space Launch System’s launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) to an...Booster production is on target at prime contractor Orbital ATK’s facilities, where technicians are applying photogrammetric markings on completed segments...Inside the Vertical Assembly Building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, four fuel tanks are being built and...NASA engineers load a structural test version of the Orion Stage Adapter for NASA's Space Launch System onto NASA’s Super...The Space Launch System intertank, shown here moving down the factory floor, finished structural assembly at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...Engineers assembled the structure of the intertank that will be flown on the first Space Launch System integrated flight with...More than 500,000 gallons of fuel will flow from the liquid hydrogen tank to the four RS-25 engines that power...The bottom of a Space Launch System liquid hydrogen fuel tank test article is visible as it is lowered into...NASA and Boeing have cleared the dome, shown here, for use as the bottom of dome of a SLS liquid...NASA cleared the dome, shown here being removed from the infeeder tool, for use as intended as the bottom dome...NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly constructed...On May 17, 2017, the engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System was moved from the barge...NASA’s barge Pegasus arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on May 15 with the Space Launch...The engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System rocket arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on...The intertank to be flown on the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System and Orion is nearly finished...
