NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

It is business as usual as NASA engineers prepare for an upcoming RS-25 rocket engine test at Stennis Space Center. They are well-versed on all of the pre-test work to be done, having conducted a very ...

Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Technologies Company, is helping install four of its RS-25 liquid-propellant rocket engines in NASA’s second Space Launch System (SLS) core stage at the agency’s ...

The test ran for almost 8 minutes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A powerful rocket engine for moon missions just fired up for ...

NASA has completed a 535-second test of its Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine to collect engine performance data. The test was conducted at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, ...

NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same ...

RS-25 prime contractor L3Harris continues to ramp up production of new flight engine hardware at their Los Angeles area facility and final assembly at the Stennis Space Center. NASA certified ...

NASA tests RS-25 engine No. 20001 on Friday, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost 500 seconds, the same ...

NASA conducts an RS-25 hot fire test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi on April 26, 2023. Credits: NASA/Stennis NASA carried out a critical hot fire of ...

NASA's next moon mission commander raised his hands in celebration during a powerful rocket engine test. Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman, a NASA astronaut, was caught on video during the recent ...

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss., March 23, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An RS-25 rocket engine with a new flight-model engine controller and flight configuration software was successfully tested for the first ...