NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) program is preparing to serve its role in the agency’s first human spaceflight mission to the moon in nearly 50 years–Artemis 1. After completing a DCR (Design Certification Review) in late September, the program engineering groups are now organizing the data to certify SLS’s initial configuration for flight in a few months’ time.
Broken into multiple segments over more than a year’s time, the review certified that the SLS Block 1 Crew vehicle meets the design requirements for its first launch and that the complete program is ready for its rocket to fly.