NASA’s 15 Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) are being transported to the Stennis Space Center (SSC), as they transition towards their future role with the Space Launch System (SLS). The highly reliable RS-25Ds – nine of which flew with the last three Space Shuttle missions – will eventually be succeeded by the expendable RS-25E, early into the SLS’ lifetime.
The Shuttle Derived Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle (SD HLV) Assessment has been completed, the result of…
An assessment into the holddown post failure on STS-126’s launch has found that debris that…
Shuttle managers are “likely” to slip STS-125’s launch date to October 10 or 11, after…
With Discovery back home, all three Orbiter Processing Facilities (OPFs) at the Kennedy Space Center…
Elon Musk has confirmed Starship will add another chapter in Launch Complex 39A’s incredible history…
As SpaceX competes for the right to launch future US military satellites, an environmental assessment…
In a major milestone for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), all four RS-25 engines –…
The four RS-25 engines for the first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) have…
Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully completed a nearly two-week long rapid-turnaround test-firing demonstration of a Space Shuttle…
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) has been hit by a tornado in the early afternoon hours…
With three years to go until the debut launch of the Space Launch System (SLS),…
The four RS-25 engines selected for the debut launch of the Space Launch System (SLS)…
With a deep heritage between the Shuttle’s External Tank and the Space Launch System (SLS)…
The end of a legend. For 29 years, the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery has lived…
Kicking off what will be a highly emotional period for the space program, NASA 905…
For the past several months, a plan to restart shuttle operations – funded by billions…
As the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) officially ended this week – closing out 30 years…
NASA’s three retired Space Shuttle orbiters are set to donate their entire Main Propulsion Systems…
Atlantis has concluded her historic 13-day mission to the International Space Station with a perfect landing at…
