NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed by an audible gasp. The company later confirmed a problem occurred late in ...

NASA tests a booster that produces 3 million pounds of thrust These solid rocket boosters are a holdover from the space shuttle era. Eric Berger – Sep 2, 2020 6:24 pm | 184 ...

NASA's third space shuttle, Atlantis, landed at the Kennedy SpaceCenter Wednesday to end its 32nd and final scheduled mission. It would beAtlantis that would use these last solid rocket boosters ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) experienced an ...

The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to Columbia, Challenger and each of the other shuttles, and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

In fact, NASA data shows each of the white nose cone segments atop the Artemis I boosters flew on over 10 shuttle missions as far back as STS-41G, a 1984 flight of space shuttle Challenger that ...

“NASA and Northrop Grumman, the SLS booster lead contractor, ... The mission marked the first time that astronauts have launched from American soil since the final Space Shuttle flight in 2011.

In all, NASA operated five shuttles in space. Shuttle Challenger and its crew were lost in a launch accident Jan. 28, 1986. Columbia and its crew were lost during return from orbit Feb. 1, 2003.

NASA’s planned new launch vehicles, which will blast off sometime after the shuttles are retired in 2010, will have a familiar look to them – the designs are based on the existing shuttle set ...