Boeing has informed its employees that NASA may cancel SLS contracts
The aerospace company, which is the primary contractor for the rocket's large core stage, issued the notifications as part of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (or WARN) Act, which ...
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From tails to (umbilical) arms, the hidden details in Lego's new Artemis SLS rocket
A similar, though more obvious easter egg was included with Lego's prior model of the SLS; designed for a younger builders, ...
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SLS: Nasa's giant 'Moon rocket' takes shape
The massive core section of the SLS has shuttle heritage in it Nasa has finished assembling the main structural components for its largest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V. Engineers at the ...
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Report: Boeing prepares for potential end of NASA’s SLS rocket program
Boeing has begun issuing 60-day layoff notices to some employees. The company expects to cut about 400 positions by April 2025.
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NASA’s Giant SLS Rocket Rolled Back For Repairs
The ICPS being loaded onto the SLS The SLS itself however is definitely in need of some work. The rocket was brought out to the pad for the first time on March 18th, where it was to conduct what ...
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Failed Test Could Further Delay NASA’s Troubled SLS Rocket
When it was proposed in 2011, the SLS seemed so simple. Rather than spending the time and money required to develop a completely new rocket, the super heavy-lift booster would be based on lightly ...
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NASA completes umbilical test for SLS Artemis 1...NASA completes umbilical test for SLS Artemis 1 mission
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket completed another milestone on its way to launch with the Umbilical Release and Retract Test (URRT). The URRT was performed on the rocket on September 19 ...
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NASA says its SLS rocket test ‘failure’ wasn’t a failure after all
NASA’s first big test of the core stage of its Space Launch System rocket had to be cut dramatically ... It wasn’t immediately clear what on the SLS core stage broke or failed, and it was ...
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NASA slow motion SLS booster rocket engine plug
An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently released slow-motion footage of an SLS booster rocket engine being tested. Part of the Space Launch System scheduled to launch in 2018, NASA left the ...
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These Lego Ideas SLS rocket, Kerbal Space Program and 'The Martian' concepts are incredible, and we hope they get made
and it's not hard to see the inspiration here in the scale and design of the SLS, NASA's flagship rocket for its Artemis program. He's a lifelong NASA fan and so building a NASA-inspired model ...
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NASA, Northrop Grumman plan for 12 additional SLS…
NASA has initialized plans via a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for 12 additional Solid Rocket Boosters, or SRBs, for the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket — a pending contract ...
How to fly NASA's Orion spacecraft
On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...