NASA Buys More SLS Rocket Engines for Future Artemis Missions

Crews delivered the last of four RS-25 engines for Artemis 1, the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft, from NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on June 27, 2019. The Aerojet Rocketdyne engines are lined up side-by-side on June 28 and will be installed into the SLS engine section Fall 2019. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com

10 May 2020

Ken Kremer

For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL –  On the heels of awarding contracts to a trio of U.S. companies to design and develop the critical human landing system under NASA’s Artemis moon landing program, the agency has announced a contract award to purchase  all the additional rocket engines  to power four more missions of the Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket that will propel NASA astronauts to the Moon later this decade. 

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