Engineers are getting ready to put the pressure on hardware for the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, as part of a rigorous test series to ensure each structure can withstand ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank to its limits ...

An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch astronauts on a mission around the moon. Ground crews at the Kennedy ...

NASA skirted internal processes and cost-saving agreements established with the Department of Defense when it chose to refurbish the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi ...

(Update: With extreme cold set to reach Florida overnight Jan. 31, NASA has delayed wet dress rehearsal until no earlier than Feb. 2, and launch is now no earlier than Feb. 8.) With the giant SLS ...

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There is a curious section in the new congressional reauthorization bill for NASA that concerns the agency’s large Space Launch System rocket. The section is titled “Reaffirmation of the Space Launch ...