Engineers are getting ready to put the pressure on hardware for the world’s most powerful rocket, NASA’s Space Launch System, as part of a rigorous test series to ensure each structure can withstand ...

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch ...

PARIS—NASA is not expected to learn if the U.S. Space Force will agree to another waiver for the Space Launch System’s (SLS) flight termination system (FTS) until after a tanking test demonstrates ...

Ever since the wet dress rehearsal test back in the early months of 2022, NASA has been fighting pesky hydrogen leaks in the hardware meant to fill the Space Launch System (SLS) with fuel. After it ...

Launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson (at left) and launch team members Wes Mosedale and Jeremy Graeber monitor data inside Firing Room 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a ...

NASA has conducted the first in a planned series of 12 ground-test firings to certify the upgraded Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engine for the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. SLS is to ...

A cryogenic tanking test of the Space Launch System achieved all objectives, potentially setting the stage for a third launch attempt of the rocket. Reading time 4 minutes A demonstration to confirm a ...

NASA is planning an uncrewed test flight for NASA's Artemis program — which aims to return humans to the Moon. The uncrewed Artemis I mission will be the first flight of the agency's Space Launch ...

An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch astronauts on a mission around the moon. Ground crews at the Kennedy ...