Late in 2019, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama tested NASA’s Space Launch System liquid hydrogen test article tank to failure. The tank withstood more than 260% ...

Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world’s largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaking ...

NASA engineers spent last week deliberately breaking the Space Launch System's fuel tank in order to see how durable it is. The process involved a test version of the SLS rocket, one made specifically ...

Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were conducting in advance of structural proof ...

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The biggest single part of NASA’s new Space Launch System is on its way upriver from New Orleans to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and SLS engineer Samuel Stephens is ready and ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank to its limits ...

NASA reached a milestone in Alabama this week when it and prime contractor Boeing completed the structural tests for the Space Launch System rocket. The deep space rocket’s components are now proven ...

A Space Launch System (SLS) fuel tank needed for structural tests in advance of the debut flight of NASA's heavy-lift booster was damaged on May 3, the space agency said today (May 11). The accident ...