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NASA fires up RS-25 Artemis moon rocket engine test for 500 seconds

NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on Artemis missions to the Moon,

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Ahead of Artemis II, NASA's SLS rocket rollout from KSC set for Saturday

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NASA Sets Jan. 17 For SLS Rollout

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NASA's Artemis moon mission one step closer to liftoff

NASA's Artemis moon mission is one step closer to liftoff as the agency will roll out the Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft that will eventually take four humans back to the mo...

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NASA’s historic Artemis II moon mission is almost ready to launch

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NASA to roll out Artemis II rocket this weekend ahead of next moon mission

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Brand-New Space Shuttle Engine Fired Up in Mississippi in First Full Duration Test

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware testing is finally underway. The RS-25 is a very old name ...

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NASA Readies Upgraded SLS Engine For Initial Hot Fire Acceptance Tests

Teams at NASA’s Stennis Space Center deliver, lift, and install the first new production RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand on Feb. 18. Credit: NASA/Danny Nowlin NASA’s Stennis Space Center will begin acceptance testing next month of newly ...

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NASA video of moon rocket test shows something just went seriously wrong

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test of a new rocket motor for NASA’s future moon missions ...

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NASA tears down old Apollo test stands in Alabama, while prepping for Artemis-2

NASA began demolishing part of its own history over the weekend. Crews at the Marshall Space Flight Center are removing the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facilities. These structures prepared the engines for the space shuttle and the Apollo moon missions.

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NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

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With SLS rocket future uncertain, L3Harris still cranking out engines

While NASA’s Artemis program may ultimately abandon the Space Launch System rocket, for now, Melbourne-based L3Harris is pushing forward with the manufacture of the powerful rocket’s core stage engines. The SLS core stage gets 2 million pounds of ...