The SLS core stage gets 2 million pounds of thrust from four RS-25 engines that for the first four Artemis missions are engines from the Space Shuttle Program refurbished by Aerojet Rocketdyne ...

Using one of the VAB's massive overhead cranes, technicians transferred the 212-foot (65-meter) SLS core stage from its recent home in High Bay 2, to the building's "transfer aisle" earlier this ...

Core Stage-2 rolls onto NASA’s Pegasus barge on July 16. Credit: NASA/Evan Deroche. Rollout of the Artemis II core stage occurred four and a half years after rollout of the first unit.

NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket's core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans on Tuesday for shipment to the agency's spaceport in ...

NASA rolled out the second core stage for the Space Launch System rocket July 16 to ship it to Florida for the Artemis 2 mission next year.

When fully assembled, this piece of the SLS will become the world’s tallest rocket stage (21 feet/65 meters high), but also the most powerful, being capable of developing enough thrust to push ...

Despite the extra obstacles, the SLS program still sets the completion of Core Stage-2 for late this year and wants to have Core Stage-3 complete in late 2024 or early 2025.

It will have to move the core stage 900 miles (1,450 km) to its new home. NASA did not say exactly how long the trip is expected to take, but we'll probably hear all about it when finished.

The SLS will come have three launch configurations, all with an unpainted orange core stage and boosters with racing stripes. Those make it go faster. By Ryan Whitwam October 26, 2015 ...

"Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked solid rocket boosters for the mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC)," NASA officials wrote in a statement Monday (March 24).

The SLS core stage gets 2 million pounds of thrust from four RS-25 engines that for the first four Artemis missions are engines from the Space Shuttle Program refurbished by Aerojet Rocketdyne ...