Before those deep-space missions can lift off, the SLS must first pass a bolted-down trial of the rocket ... by a pair of cranes and slotted into Stennis’s B-2 Test Stand.

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA ... the rocket. That left the rocket hanging on a 325-ton overhead crane, which would lift ...

Activation of the B-2 test stand at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for the “Green Run” test campaign of the first Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage is almost complete and NASA and its ...

part that will help protect the rocket’s upper stage, which will propel the Orion spacecraft on its planned Artemis launches.

Learn about NASA's successful integration of the launch vehicle stage adapter to the existing components of the Artemis II ...