Vince Dickens, a former senior contracting officer at U.S. Army Contracting Command, has been named procurement chief for NASA’s Space Launch System vehicle. Dickens announced his new position in a LinkedIn post
MoreNASA accomplished initial certification tests of redesigned RS-25 engines manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne, which will be used for the Space Launch System rocket in the Artemis V lunar missions and beyond. The
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NASA has completed another hot fire test of an RS-25 certification engine as part of a test series to certify the production of the redesigned engines that will be used for the
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NASA has carried out a hot fire test of an RS-25 certification engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to validate its performance
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NASA completed a hot fire test to study the pivoting capabilities of the Aerojet Rocketdyne’s redesigned RS-25 engine, which will be used for future flights of the Space Launch System. The agency
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The post-flight analysis team of the Artemis I Space Launch System rocket is interpreting and reviewing data for their final report on the mission’s performance. Their findings will be used to refine
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Shawn Quinn, formerly a director of engineering at NASA, has been appointed manager of the Exploration Ground Systems program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Quinn will succeed Mike Bolger and
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Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter has prompted NASA to ask whether the transaction would have an impact on the business magnate’s rocket company, SpaceX, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. NASA Administrator
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NASA reported on Wednesday that the initial launch of its Space Launch System rocket met expectations in transporting the uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon. SLS is integral to the Artemis I
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A NASA rocket equipped with a Boeing-built core stage took off Wednesday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send the unmanned Orion spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin,
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