Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GallerySparks fly as a hydrogen burn-off igniter test is conducted May 5 at the Redstone Test Center on Redstone Arsenal...Crews at Conrad Shipyard in Morgan City, Louisiana, complete a 250-foot-long metal canopy for NASA's Pegasus barge.Marshall Center engineers Jeremy Myers, left, and Jonathan Pryor set up cameras on the test stand at ATK's facilities in...: A screenshot of the cameras cycling through different settings during the two-minute booster firing.The successful March 11 test of a solid rocket motor for NASA’s Space Launch System, was the culmination of months...Crews lower the cryogenic tank onto a barge March 12 at NASA's dock on the Tennessee River.A massive cryogenic tank is loaded onto a truck at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to be moved to a...Fabrication recently was completed on the core stage simulator structural test article at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...At the Promontory, Utah test facility of Orbital ATK, the booster for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket was fired for...The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for...The SLS booster is being heated to 90 degrees Fahrenheit ahead of the March 11 qualification test at Orbital ATK's...Engineers at Orbital ATK prepare to test the largest, most powerful booster ever built for NASA's new rocket, the Space...Location of the thrust vector control actuators on the SLS RS-25 engine.NASA Marshall's Roger Parisa and Miranda Holton get the thrust vector control actuator ready for vibration testing.An Orbital ATK technician checks the avionics control panels at Orbital ATK’s Avionics Lab in Clearfield, Utah.Standing more than two stories tall and almost 8 feet in diameter, the composite test structure was pressurized with water...The successful test demonstrated that a composite case can withstand damage and still handle the stresses of space launch.Technicians remove a rounding fixture from the solid rocket motor center segment.An ATK technician installs one of more than 900 plies of insulation onto the inner diameter of an SLS booster...NASA and Boeing engineers conduct anti-geyser testing and monitor data from those tests in a control room at NASA's Marshall...A full-scale replica of the SLS liquid oxygen tank feed system is set up on one of the Marshall Center's...Seen here is the Pegaus barge at Conrad Shipyard near Morgan City, Louisiana. NASA astronaut Steve Bowen and NASA representatives...A 2-percent scale model of the Space Launch System core stage RS-25 engines, in the pictures at left, and a...The first qualification motor for NASA's Space Launch System's booster is installed in ATK's test stand in Utah and is...The final segment of the full-scale version of a five-segment solid rocket motor for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch...A close-up view from the test stand.This is the first of eight tests for the development engine, which will provide NASA engineers with critical data on...The RS-25 engine fires up for a 500-second test Jan. 9 at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis,...Work continues on NASA's Pegasus barge, which is undergoing refurbishments at Conrad Shipyard LLC in Morgan City, Louisiana.NASA engineers at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., took a major step Dec. 11 towards hotfire testing...The barrel for the engine section of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is taken off the Vertical Weld...Testing of the rocket engines for NASA's new Space Launch System (SLS) took another giant leap forward Oct. 24 with...On Oct. 17, crews pour concrete and embed anchor rods to stabilize a new, 215-foot test stand at NASA's Marshall...The Marshall Center, Lockheed Martin and other North Alabama companies have provided critical support on the launch abort system and...A ring and barrel recently loaded onto the Vertical Assembly Center at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.Test technicians at ATK's facility in Promontory, Utah, examine the booster aft skirt, which is set up for final validation...Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors.A 5-percent scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS) is ignited Aug. 28 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.