21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
... costs, including a $1 billion deficit needed in order to get SLS off the ground, means that the earliest Artemis-1 will be ready... delay for the three programs—the Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle, the Orion spacecraft, and supporting ground systems...
02 June 2021
Nelson announces NASA’s return to Venus
...vehicle assembly building at KSC,” Nelson added, saying the first SLS for the uncrewed test flight “will be the most powerful... Space Shuttle. The development programme to build the first SLS is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget...
28 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... to as CDR). The Space Launch System (otherwise known as SLS) is the first vehicle that was designed with the journey to...and passed its own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
...boosters' combined output of 32,000 kN will provide over 75% of SLS' total thrust at liftoff and burn approximately six tons of propellant per...will next be used on the maiden flight of the SLS on Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), scheduled for the second ...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
...flight was followed shortly afterwards with an announcement that the SLS/Orion mission would not be taking astronauts with it on...work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground and launch facilities (Ground ...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
...assembling the main structural components for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage - the largest rocket stage the ...the world’s most powerful rocket,” said Julie Bassler, the NASA SLS stages manager. “Now, to complete the stage, NASA will ...
