This will mean another $16 billion will spent until 2022. There has been about $30 billion spent on SLS and Orion up until the end of 2018. A test launch of obsolete hardware will be the purpose of ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket may not be ready for its first launch until November 2018, nearly a year later than previously scheduled, based on the assessment of a major ...

As of August 2018, Boeing has spent $11.9 billion working on the Space Launch System. (SLS) Boeing will spend at least $8.9 billion through 2021—double the amount initially planned—while delivery of ...

NASA’s Exploration Systems Development office has completed its review of progress to date as well as forward path activity on the development of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the NASA ...

NASA artist's concept of SLS. WASHINGTON — The first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket remains on schedule for the fall of 2018 despite delays in one key element of the Orion ...

NASA's deep-space rocket, known as the Space Launch System (SLS) is ready for lift-off by 2018, at least according to an agency review of the system. The review, which is thorough and looks at ...

NASA new mega-rocket, a towering booster designed for deep space missions, will be ready for its first test flight no later than November 2018, space agency officials announced Wednesday (Aug. 27). It ...

NASA says the design for its heavy-lift Space Launch System has gotten further along than any comparable development project in three decades, but the schedule for turning the design into a rocket for ...

The RS-25 test team conducted their first hot-fire test of the year in the A-1 test stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Tuesday afternoon test continued development work started with ...