During the lead-up to NASA’s Artemis 1 mission back in 2022, recurring hydrogen leaks led to significant delays and a ...
The Space Launch System was supposed to be NASA’s triumphant return to Saturn V scale, a government built mega rocket that could guarantee American astronauts a path back to the Moon. Instead, it has ...
NASA and Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft, are now exploring the possibility of launching Orion on rockets other than the Space Launch System (SLS). This consideration ...
President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) included provisions for billions more dollars towards a notoriously over budget and behind schedule space launch vehicle while slashing ...
The Space Launch System rocket program is now a decade and a half old, and it continues to be dominated by two unfortunate traits: It is expensive, and it is slow. The massive rocket and its ...