25 October 2021
NASA is targeting Feb 2022 for first Artemis launch
NASA announced on Friday that the agency’s long-delayed maiden flight of its massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will take place during a 15-day window beginning 12 February, 2022; the date however will ...
21 March 2018
NASA aims for the Moon with commercial help
...initiative will run alongside the development and flight of the Space Launch Systems (SLS), Orion, and the agency’s plans to build ... in expanding human presence deeper into the solar system,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator of the ...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
... will rely on its own Orion crew capsule and heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket – that currently is still under development – to loft astronauts into space. The landing vehicle, which all vary widely in design, then carry...
29 January 2021
NASA is looking at commercial options to launch its Europa Clipper
... previously mandated by law that Europa Clipper’s orbiter and a follow-up lander mission had to be launched on NASA’s huge, but problematic Space Launch Systems (SLS) rocket. However, development on the SLS is behind schedule and when it is finally...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... General. NASA has been hard at work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground and launch facilities (Ground Systems Development and Operations or GSDO) needed to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030’s, but...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... (OIG) outlined these issues and many others in an audit report (issued 10 March) titled “NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Program Costs and Contracts.” Doug Loverro, associate administrator of NASA’s human exploration and operations mission...
