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Aug 31, 2016
The near-term focus for the program is to get the Space Launch System off the ground—without and with humans on top.
Aug 31, 2016
The heavy-lift Space Launch System will be a big vehicle, and NASA is starting to turn out some big pieces—and ground infrastructure—for its first flight in 2018.
Aug 31, 2016
NASA is using a massive friction-stir welding tool at the Michoud Assembly Facility to build its first flight structure for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS).
Aug 26, 2016
In this week’s Washington Outlook column: the GAO dings the Air Force on A-10 retirement plans, and Maryland Space Business Roundtable attendees weigh in on the U.S. presidential election.
Aug 26, 2016
A 1957 revelation that the U.S. was tracking Soviet missile launches from a secret radar in Turkey has its roots in sleuthing of students from Kettering Grammar School in the UK.
Aug 25, 2016
A program begun in 2008 results in testing of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.’s fattest solid-propellant motor so far.
Aug 24, 2016
Aerojet Rocketdyne is applying experience it gained during the past 50 years to a new rocket engine designed to compete with Russian offerings.
Aug 24, 2016
NASA is using funding it didn’t request to build and fly a more powerful upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System