Stennis conducts SLS engine firing marking RS-25 return

Stennis conducts SLS engine firing marking RS-25 return

NASA’s Stennis Space Center has test fired the first RS-25 (unit E0525) of the Space Launch System (SLS) era on Friday, marking the beginning of a new career for the famous engine. Four of the former Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) are set to power each SLS during...

RS-25 engine upgrade is no 80s techno flashback

Take a look at your current devices. Can you imagine swapping that smartphone for a gigantic cellphone from the 1980s? Surfing the Internet with dial-up speed? Working out to your favorite music with a cassette player? Today’s technology is better, faster and...

Orion Flying Comfortably Through Space

Orbiting above Earth attached to the Delta IV second stage, Orion’s telemetry shows all systems working well on NASA’s newest spacecraft designed for astronauts. The next major stages in the flight test will begin with the re-ignition of the second stage engine. That...

The Journey to Mars Starts With Orion Next Month

Humanity’s first effort to send humans into deep space and to other planets in our solar system begins in just two weeks. The launch window for NASA’s newest spacecraft, Orion, opens Dec. 4. While the world has been fixed on the Mars Rover and, more recently, a...

Orion Spacecraft Moves to Space Launch Complex 37

The Orion spacecraft moved from the Launch Abort Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 11 to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. After arriving at the pad Nov. 12, Orion was lifted for stacking on the United Launch...