The processing teams within NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) Program are focusing their plans for how they’ll put together the first integrated Orion and Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle to launch Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). After the spacecraft and launch vehicle components have individually completed all of their first-time and acceptance testing, they will be transported to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and turned over to EGS to be assembled, checked out together, and launched.
SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon that will fly the uncrewed Demonstration Mission -1 (DM-1) as part…
A recent assessment of the completion date for the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core…
NASA is getting the hardware ready for an important test next year of the launch…
In a year that should see both SpaceX and Boeing conduct the uncrewed test flights…
Top NASA human exploration administrators briefed the Human Exploration Operations (HEO) committee of the NASA…
The first Orion spacecraft that will be capable of transporting NASA astronauts into deep space…
As US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), one of the…
With approximately three years to go before the inaugural flight of the Space Launch System rocket, NASA…
The historic “first weld” of the Exploration Mission -1 (EM-1) Orion is set to take…
Engineers at SpaceX’s Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas are continuing to conduct…
A collaboration between experts at numerous NASA centers and commercial companies have created a plan…
Preparations continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first launch of the…
The Space Launch System rocket, or SLS, is entering a critical year, with 2020 to…
One of the major milestones for allowing humans to fly on NASA’s Orion spacecraft is…
