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 […]
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NASA Forgot the Largest Rocket Booster It Built – in the 1960s.
NASA’s Space Launch System Booster Thunders During Successful Ground Test “The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday …” Aerojet, Wikipedia “Between Sept. 25, 1965 and […]
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@NASASocial is a Little Confused About SLS
Tomorrow's @NASA_SLS booster test will burn 5.5 million tons of propellant every SECOND. #SLSFiredUp #JourneytoMars #NASAsocial — NASA Social (@NASASocial) March 10, 2015 Keith’s note: If the QM-1 SRB engine […]
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RS-25 Tested at Stennis
NASA Tests RS-25 Engine “The new year is off to a hot start for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS). The engine that will drive America’s next great rocket to deep […]