18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... that the core stage of the SLS rocket is ready for the Artemis I mission, and to carry crew on future missions,” said NASA ... verifying this new core stage is ready for flight on the Artemis I mission.” The Green Run series of tests began in January...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
NASA’s call to industry asking American companies to provide an integrated human landing system for the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration programme, has been answered by space manufacturing giant Boeing with a design that specifies it will ...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
...its Colorado factory and assembled the capsules for the Artemis 1 and Artemis 2 test flights to lunar orbit and back, uncrewed...and equipment. Lockheed Martin delivered the Orion vehicle for Artemis 1 to NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems personnel in ...
02 July 2019
Orion spacecraft's launch abort test completed successfully
... building the most powerful rocket in the world to send astronauts to the Moon in the Orion spacecraft for Artemis missions,” said Bill Hill, deputy associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “With...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the agency’s Artemis I mission, which will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test ... the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy in preparation for Artemis I. SLS, Orion, and the ground systems at ...
11 March 2020
NASA faces up to huge cost overruns for its SLS heavy-lift rocket
... OIG estimates total SLS costs, including those not being tracked against a commitment, at $18.3 billion assuming the Artemis 1 launch slips to 2021. Implement management policies for “greater visibility” into cost estimates and to “appropriately and...
