NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, ...
SLS (Space Launch System) uses a 50 year old rocket engine design that now costs $145 million each (not including labor and ...
NASA today issued a Request for Information seeking ideas from educational institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community’s ability to acquire and publicly ...
When Tony Mendez looks at a Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), he sees a highly durable, specialized, complex machine that’s done for more than 20 years exactly what it was designed to do: propel the ...
FOR LATER: The 15 remaining RD-25D space shuttle main engines are on the way from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where they will be stored until needed to ...
Certification testing of Aerojet's new RS-25 engines for missions beginning with Artemis V was completed in April. Credit: NASA Stennis Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies company, says it ...
Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.