Smith Condemns Administration’s Space Exploration Delays “NASA announced today that its schedule for the first crewed mission of SLS and Orion will slip to 2023; this represents a two year […]
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NASA Can't Decide What SLS Engines It Does/Does Not Need
Decision looms on when to introduce new SLS upper stage, Spaceflight Now “Officials initially planned to power the upper stage with a J-2X engine, a modernized powerplant based on the […]
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SLS CDR: Not As Smooth As Advertised
Space Launch System Program Moving Forward with Critical Design Review “Milestone reviews like the critical design review are just that — critical. The critical design review demonstrates that the SLS […]
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SLS RS-25 Engine Test Throttle's Up
NASA RS-25 SLS Engine Revs Up for Another Test [With Video] “In auto racing parlance, NASA engineers put the “pedal to the metal” during a July 17 test of its […]
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GAO Finds NASA SLS Costs Not Credible
Space Launch System: Management Tools Should Better Track to Cost and Schedule Commitments to Adequately Monitor Increasing Risk, GAO “The cost and schedule estimates for the National Aeronautics and Space […]
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The Cancelled Ares V Team Has A New Rocket To Sell You
Congress Must Fully Fund the Space Launch System, Roll Call “The SLS vehicle design materialized from an extensive, unbiased set of NASA technical studies that compared all possible scenarios, with […]
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More False Memories About the Origin (and Cost) of SLS
Bush’s former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says Obama’s Space Launch System ‘next essential step’: guest opinion, Huntsville Times “The SLS vehicle design materialized from an extensive, unbiased set of NASA […]
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SLS Now Has A Music Video
NASA makes music video for its huge new Mars rocket, CNet “The minute-long animated teaser below, posted Tuesday, might manage to pump up those of us nerds who have been […]
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Does Michoud Have Welding Issues?
Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt, Slashdot “A giant welding machine, built for NASA’s multi-billion dollar Space Launch System (SLS), has to be taken apart and rebuilt because […]
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OIG Report on SLS/Orion Ground Systems
NASA’s Launch Support and Infrastructure Modernization: Assessment of the Ground Systems Needed to Launch SLS and Orion “In order to decrease the risk that the GSDO Program will experience cost […]