Space Launch System GallerySpace Launch System GallerySpace Launch System Solid Rocket Booster Avionics Complete Key TestingOwen Brayson, an instrumentation technician for NASA's RS-25 prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne, exhibits the pogo accumulator assembly, NASA's largest 3-D-printed...All four RS-25 engines that will power SLS for its first flight are ready to be integrated with the rocket's...Technicians practice operations with the RS-25 pathfinder engine that recently arrived at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.The core stage pathfinder, a full-scale, steel mockup of the SLS core stage, is at Michoud and ready for technicians...The liquid oxygen tank--shown here as technicians inside the tank complete final welds to plug holes left by the robotic...The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage pathfinder, which is similar in similar in size, shape and weight to the...NASA completed major welding for the liquid hydrogen tank for the first Space Launch System mission at the agency’s Michoud...A NASA KAMAG transporter tractor with 96 wheels hauls the Space Launch System’s launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) to an...Booster production is on target at prime contractor Orbital ATK’s facilities, where technicians are applying photogrammetric markings on completed segments...Inside the Vertical Assembly Building at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, four fuel tanks are being built and...NASA engineers load a structural test version of the Orion Stage Adapter for NASA's Space Launch System onto NASA’s Super...The Space Launch System intertank, shown here moving down the factory floor, finished structural assembly at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...Engineers assembled the structure of the intertank that will be flown on the first Space Launch System integrated flight with...More than 500,000 gallons of fuel will flow from the liquid hydrogen tank to the four RS-25 engines that power...The bottom of a Space Launch System liquid hydrogen fuel tank test article is visible as it is lowered into...NASA and Boeing have cleared the dome, shown here, for use as the bottom of dome of a SLS liquid...NASA cleared the dome, shown here being removed from the infeeder tool, for use as intended as the bottom dome...NASA engineers install test hardware for the agency's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly constructed...On May 17, 2017, the engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System was moved from the barge...NASA’s barge Pegasus arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on May 15 with the Space Launch...The engine section structural test article for NASA's Space Launch System rocket arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center on...The intertank to be flown on the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System and Orion is nearly finished...Liquid oxygen tank being manufactured for weld confidence testing shows how domes are added to make tanks in the Vertical...Manufacturing is complete on the liquid hydrogen tank structural qualification test article, shown here.A engine section structural qualification test article for NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, is loaded onto the barge...The Space Launch System’s core stage engine section structural qualification test article is stacked and prepared for shipment on the...NASA engineers conduct a test of the first RS-25 engine controller that will be used on an actual Space Launch...Aerojet Rocketdyne technicians inspect the engine controller for the first integrated flight of NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion.The interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket is on its way...NASA engineers conducted their first RS-25 test of 2017 on the A-1 Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay...On the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System with the Orion spacecraft, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) will...The next generation of NASA's Space Launch System -- the most powerful rocket ever built -- will be 364 feet...Dr. Patrick Shea inspects a nearly 4 3/4-foot (1.3 percent scale) model of the second generation of NASA's Space Launch...A team prepares a robot – the yellow machine attached to the liquid hydrogen tank for the Space Launch System...The propulsion system that will give the Orion spacecraft the in-space push needed to travel thousands of miles beyond the...The ICPS is the liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen-based propulsion stage that will give NASA's Orion spacecraft the in-space push needed to...A test version of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA's Space Launch System rocket is loaded into the...Technicians from Janicki Industries in Hamilton, Washington, position the layers of the diaphragm for the Orion stage adapter. The adapter...Pegasus departed NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on Nov. 1, 2016, and traveled on the Pearl...