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After making fixes to the 322-foot rocket and the system used by an off-center nitrogen supplier, NASA officials on Friday said SLS is on track for a rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to ...

The SLS team determined that it can expand the limits without much additional risk to the hardware, Honeycutt said. If the system had exceeded the prior limits during an actual launch, NASA said ...

NASA conducted Thursday's hot fire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to simulate a launch by firing the engines while anchored to a tower at its Stennis Space Center ...

SLS is the only rocket capable of sending the Orion spacecraft, a capsule that sits atop the stack of boosters, to the moon and beyond. Think of the Orion capsule as the RV of the sky: It's not...

Space Launch System SLS Block 1 with the Orion spacecraft on pad 39B ahead of the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal Function Super heavy-lift launch vehicle Manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne Northrop Grumman Boeing United Launch Alliance Country of origin United States Project cost US$23.011 billion (inflation adjusted, through 2021) Cost per launch Over US$2 billion excluding development (estimate ...