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Earlier this month, NASA engineers loaded the final test article for NASA's Space Launch System into its test stand at #NASAMarshall! The liquid oxygen tank structural test article, one of two propellant tanks in the SLS core stage, will be pushed and pulled by 38 hydraulic cylinders with millions of pounds of force. Learn more about how we're testing SLS to send Artemis 1 to the Moon >> go.nasa.gov/2XyrEWB | NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

On January 17, 2026, NASA's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket often called the agency's mega Moon rocket successfully arrived at Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fully stacked SLS, topped with the Orion spacecraft, completed a nearly 12-hour journey atop the massive crawler-transporter, traveling slowly at about 0.82 mph along the 4-mile route from the Vehicle Assembly Building. This milestone marks a critical step in preparations for the Artemis II mission, the

NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration just rolled out the Space Launch System (SLS), an 11-million-pound rocket built to return humans to the moon. 🚀🌕 This powerful launch vehicle will carry the Artemis II mission, sending four astronauts around the Moon and beyond Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo 17. It took 12 hours to move the rocket just four miles to the launch pad. With over 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, the SLS is NASA’s most powerful rocket to date.