Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GalleryThe 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...Liquid oxygen tank being manufactured for weld confidence testing shows how domes are added to make tanks in the Vertical...Manufacturing is complete on the liquid hydrogen tank structural qualification test article, shown here.A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge...The Space Launch System’s core stage engine section structural qualification test article is stacked and prepared for shipment on the...NASA engineers conduct a test of the first RS-25 engine controller that will be used on an actual Space Launch...Aerojet Rocketdyne technicians inspect the engine controller for the first integrated flight of NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion.The interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on its way...NASA engineers conducted their first RS-25 test of 2017 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay...On the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) will...The next generation of NASA's Space Launch System -- the most powerful rocket ever built -- will be 364 feet...Dr. Patrick Shea inspects a nearly 4 3/4-foot (1.3 percent scale) model of the second generation of NASA's Space Launch...A team prepares a robot – the yellow machine attached to the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System...The propulsion system that will give the Orion spacecraft the in-space push needed to travel thousands of miles beyond the...The ICPS is the liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen-based propulsion stage that will give NASA's Orion spacecraft the in-space push needed to...A test version of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA's Space Launch System rocket is loaded into the...Technicians from Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Washington, position the layers of the diaphragm for the Orion stage adapter. The adapter...Pegasus departed NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Nov. 1, 2016, and traveled on the Pearl...The NASA barge Pegasus is 310 feet long and 50 feet wide. It looks cavernous, but it will soon be...The NASA barge Pegasus, left NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Nov. 1, 2016 and traveled...NASA engineers have teamed with CUBRC to better understand and analyze how the SLS is heated as it ascends into...A RL10 engine undergoes testing at NASA’s test facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.A test version of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) for NASA's Space Launch System rocket is loaded into the...A test version of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) is moved to a 65-foot-tall test stand at NASA's Marshall...The core stage liquid hydrogen tank has completed welding on the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in...David Osborne, an Aerie Aerospace LLC machinist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, takes measurements prior to...While construction of the stand is complete, over the next few months Marshall engineers will install special test equipment to...Test Stand 4697 will subject the 196,000-gallon cryogenic liquid oxygen tank in the massive core stage of NASA's Space Launch...Engineers just completed welding the liquid hydrogen tank that will provide fuel for the first SLS flight in 2018.At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, engineers took the four self-propelled modular transporters out for a test drive.The SLS is an advanced, heavy-lift rocket that will provide an entirely new capability for science and human exploration beyond...NASA engineers successfully conducted a development test of the RS-25 rocket engine Thursday, Aug. 18 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center...Welders inside a large liquid hydrogen tank for NASA's Space Launch System at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans...NASA engineers conducted a successful developmental test of RS-25 rocket engine No. 0528 July 29, 2016, to collect critical performance...A qualification test article for the liquid hydrogen tank on NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is lifted off...While this may look like a futuristic tunnel to another world, it is really looking up inside a nearly complete...The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch System’s booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016,...The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch System’s booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016,...The second and final qualification motor (QM-2) test for the Space Launch System’s booster is seen, Tuesday, June 28, 2016,...