The crew compartment for NASA’s first crewed Orion spacecraft is headed to its launch site in Florida this week after completion of structural assembly at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans. Late last month Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin completed welding the crew module pressure vessel that will fly on Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2), the first full-up iteration of the spacecraft that will support astronaut crews on multi-week missions to the Moon and beyond.
As NASA continues to analyze and refine the profile for the Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) test…
Prime contractor Boeing recently completed Thermal Protection System (TPS) applications on the liquid oxygen (LOX)…
NASA has started updating plans and schedules for additional SLS Block 1 launches in the…
Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of…
NASA and prime contractor Boeing are deep into the application of spray-on foam insulation (SOFI)…
Engineers at the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in New Orleans are using a pathfinder RS-25…
NASA has completed an important three day Technical Interchange Meeting regarding the agency’s upcoming flagship…
NASA is getting ready to apply spray-on foam insulation (SOFI) to the outside of the…
The Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (ICPS) is now deep into its latest phase of processing, as…
As US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), one of the…
A major milestone in the build-up to the maiden launch of the Space Launch System has…
NASA’s monster rocket will evolve into an even larger vehicle early in her lifetime, as…
As part of its transition to the powerful Block 1B variant of the Space Launch…
NASA’s Exploration Systems Development office has completed its review of progress to date as well…
The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has issued a “Justification for Other Than Full and…
As NASA and its contracted partner agencies press forward toward the debut launch of the…
NASA managers have placed a “stop work order” in relation to the human-rating of the…
NASA is ramping up production of hardware and flight elements for the Space Launch System…
An “All-Hands” style meeting was held in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy…