The real SLS first launched in November 2022 on NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission around the ... Although they are faithfully reproduced and a diagram appears the set's box, the individual arms ...

An overall status review is currently planned for mid-September of this year to see if stacking of the SLS for Artemis II can begin ... overland versions. A temporary weather cover was also ...

It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, which is slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far ...

SLS will launch NASA's Artemis 2 mission to fly four astronauts aboard an Orion spacecraft around the moon and back sometime next year. "Technicians joined the core stage March 23 with the stacked ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

The Orion spacecraft that will fly to the Moon on NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was lifted atop its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on October 20, completing major assembly of the full vehicle stack.

While SpaceX's in-development Starship has since surpassed that liftoff thrust, SLS remains the most-powerful rocket to ever send a payload into orbit. That happened in 2022 on the Artemis I ...