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Video: Future Frontier

Artist concept of SLS on the launchpad.

'Future Frontier' discusses the new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift launch vehicle and its importance to furthering NASA's exploration mission.

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Charting the Course

Graphic for PDF, Voyages, Charting the Course for Sustainable Human Space Exploration

NASA's capability-driven approach is an innovative strategy that challenges the way we think about human space exploration and sets the stage for a new era of discovery.

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SLS Education and Outreach

Artist concept of a Space Launch System launch

Look to this site for images, lithographs, classroom resources and upcoming events to meet and interact with SLS personnel.

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SLS Monthly Highlights

Gas generator from an F1 engine is test fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
What's the Latest?

Read about the progress of the Space Launch System via "monthly highlights."

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Why We Explore

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Why Do We Explore?

From the time of our birth, humans have felt a primordial urge to explore -- to blaze new trails, map new lands, and answer profound questions about ourselves and our universe.

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Space Launch System Latest News and Features

Selective laser melting at Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Chief Tours Marshall 3D Rapid Prototyping Facility

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will see cutting-edge creation techniques for Space Launch System engines on Feb. 22 at the Marshall Center.

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First test piece produced on the M2 Cusing Machine at the Marshall Center

Bolden Tours Advanced Manufacturing Facility

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will see cutting-edge creation techniques for Space Launch System engines on Feb. 22 at the Marshall Center.

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NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next generation J2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at Stennis Space Center.

New Round of J-2X Testing Kicks Off at Stennis

NASA engineers conducted the first in a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine Feb. 15 at Stennis Space Center.

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An expanded view of an artist rendering of the 130 metric ton configuration of the NASA Space Launch System

NASA Awards Final SLS Advanced Booster Contract

NASA has selected Aerojet for a $23.3 million contract for future advanced boosters for the agency's Space Launch System (SLS).

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A J2X engine, right, is being transported to the A2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

NASA Set for New Round of J-2X Testing

NASA's progress for a return to deep space missions continues with a new round of tests on the next-generation J-2X rocket engine.

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A technician checks the avionics test article for solid rocket boosters for a flight control test for SLS.

SLS Booster Avionics Get a Work Out

NASA has conducted the second Flight Control Test of solid rocket booster avionics, part of the first two test flights of the Space Launch System.

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A gas generator from an F1 engine is test fired at the Marshall Space Flight Center

World's Most Powerful Engine Blazes New Path

To help develop the nation's future heavy lift rocket, NASA resurrected the mighty F1 -- the world's most powerful rocket engine ever flown.

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Space Launch System Image Galleries

  • Small solid rocket motor test at the Marshall Center on Mar. 14, 2012.

    SLS Images

    SLS development is underway across the nation. Watch the progress of the biggest, most capable rocket ever to be built in our extensive image gallery.

  • Artist's concept of NASA's Space Launch System initial crew vehicle launching from the Kennedy Space Center.

    SLS Artist Concepts

    Find the latest artists' concepts of the integrated SLS vehicle design, both for the initial 70-metric-ton lift capacity launch vehicle and the evolved 130-metric-ton rocket.

Space Launch System: Safe, Affordable, Sustainable

    Artist concept of SLS on launch pad The U.S. Space Launch System, or SLS, will provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth orbit. It also will back up commercial and international partner transportation services to the International Space Station. Designed to be flexible for crew or cargo missions, the SLS will be safe, affordable, and sustainable, to continue America's journey of discovery from the unique vantage point of space. The SLS will take astronauts farther into space than ever before, while engaging the U.S. aerospace workforce here at home.

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Media Contacts

    For media support regarding the Space Launch System, please contact:

    Kim Henry
    Marshall Space Flight Center
    Phone: 256-544-0034
    Kimberly.M.Henry@nasa.gov