Late in 2019, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tested NASA’s Space Launch System liquid hydrogen test article tank to failure. The tank withstood more than 260% ...

NASA engineers spent last week deliberately breaking the Space Launch System's fuel tank in order to see how durable it is. The process involved a test version of the SLS rocket, one made specifically ...

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 ...

When completed, the NASA Space Launch System rocket will be the main tool of transportation for humans to the Moon and possibly beyond. More importantly, it will be the only rocket, commercial or ...

Major construction is complete on NASA’s largest new Space Launch System structural test stand, and engineers are now installing equipment needed to test the rocket’s biggest fuel tank. The stand is ...

NASA reached a milestone in Alabama this week when it and prime contractor Boeing completed the structural tests for the Space Launch System rocket. The deep space rocket’s components are now proven ...

The biggest single part of NASA’s new Space Launch System is on its way upriver from New Orleans to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and SLS engineer Samuel Stephens is ready and ...

Last weekend, the final and most important test for the Space Launch System rocket that will support the Artemis program took place. It was supposed to be an eight-minute firing of all four RS-25 ...

NASA will replace on the pad a seal for a quick disconnect fitting between a liquid hydrogen fuel line and the core stage of the SLS, keeping open the option for a launch attempt later this month.

A Space Launch System (SLS) fuel tank needed for structural tests in advance of the debut flight of NASA's heavy-lift booster was damaged on May 3, the space agency said today (May 11). The accident ...