With SLS on track to make its debut launch in December 2017 from Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA continues its efforts to refine the vehicle’s test flight necessities ahead of EM-1 – particularly, the removal of the requirement to human rate the rocket’s Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
"Pad-B"
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Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39B is fast returning to the status of an active launch…
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The unprecedented effort to haul a space vehicle through the cramped streets of the United…
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The youngest orbiter in the shuttle fleet, Endeavour, was powered down for the final time…
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With less than one week to go before the launch of the twin GRAIL lunar…
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For Atlantis, the last decade of her career would be marked with many more triumphs…
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With Atlantis’s early years behind her, the middle years of OV-104’s impressive career would serve…
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The Space Shuttle orbiter Atlantis, in many ways the middle-child orbiter of the Space Shuttle…
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From the beginning of the Space Shuttle Program, the promise of a permanent, space-based work…
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The Space Shuttle Program was well underway by January 1986 – with preparations marching toward…
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For over 29 years engineers, space enthusiasts, and people around the world have marveled at the technological…
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Continuing on her streak of missions dedicated to microgravity research, Columbia’s tenure with the Space…
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April 12, 1981: the 20th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight in history. On that…
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25-years ago today, Space Shuttle Challenger was lost with all hands in the bright blue…
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As NASA enters 2011, preparations are underway for an exciting new venture in space operations…
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And so to the end. With a flawless countdown and a launch into a clear…
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For NASA, 2009 proved to be a stellar year, one filled with five extremely successful…
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Artemis
Ares I-X processing for rollout – HLV alternative continuing to make progress
by Chris BerginWith just three weeks to go until rollout to Pad 39B, Ares I-X is in…
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Artemis
Ares I-X undergoing ordnance installation – I-X/STS-129 conflict evaluations
by Chris BerginThe Ares I-X test vehicle is continuing to undergo the business end of processing inside…
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The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) has successfully carried out a pad abort test launch…