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Latest News About NASA's Space Launch System
NASA has picked the design for its next big rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). This heavy-lift booster will carry humans farther than they've ever been, to an asteroid, Mars and beyond.
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NASA has an ambitious plan for future Mars exploration, including one day sending humans to the Red Planet.
NASA is expecting 13,500 people to view the launch of Mars Science Laboratory on Saturday.
The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity will now launch Saturday, Nov. 26.
NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System, will arrive on a mobile launcher weighing 6.75 million-pounds, standing 400 feet tall. Time-lapse video shows the tower's trip to its home at Kennedy Space Center's Launchpad 39B.
A timeline of every mission sent to Mars so far.
See the latest news, photos, videos and multimedia for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission.
NASA administrator Charles Bolden assured lawmakers that the agency is on track with its future goals.
The space agency has opened applications for its 21st astronaut class.
NASA's Space Launch Systems upper stage J-2X rocket engine was successfully test fired for 500 seconds on November 9th, 2011.
The agency fired the J-2X engine for more than 8 minutes.
NASA will conduct its first test flight of its Orion Spacecraft - named Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. The capsule will be launched to an altitude higher than any human-rated spacecraft has reached since 1973.
The six Mars500 crew members completed their 520-day mock mission on Nov. 4.
Orion is one of the most recognizable constellations in the sky for its likeness to a hunter with a bow and arrow.
After a simulated 520-day journey to Mars, six volunteer astronauts have emerged from isolation.
Houston, we have a space president.
NASA will recycle launch equipment for its new heavy-lift rocket.
The crew of the Mars500 project is set to "return" home this week.
How to fly a human mission to a Near Earth Asteroid. This video was created before NASA'S Constellation program was cancelled. But it could be flown with new generation private or government vehicles.
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