Nathan Barker chatted with David Sumner, Senior Project Manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) for ML-1 on Artemis II, in an interview ... STS-116 when Space Shuttle Discovery ...

The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME ... The “heritage” SSME hardware and its reusable Block II design was adapted for use in the SLS Core Stage largely unchanged. The resulting “adaptation ...

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

surpassing the space shuttle system's 7.8 million pounds (3.5 million kg) of thrust, according to the Houston Space Center. Under its initial Block 1 configuration, the SLS can ferry 59,500 pounds ...

which are recycled from the Space Shuttle. Those engines have been tested, fitted, and are ready to power the SLS rocket during its Artemis II mission. SLS is a big rocket. The first stage ...