Agency Says It Is Ready To Start Construction On The First Booster
The team designing America's new flagship rocket has completed successfully a major technical review of the vehicle's core stage. NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) will take the agency's Orion spacecraft and other payloads beyond low-Earth orbit. The core stage preliminary design review (PDR) was held Thursday at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
Tracking And Data Relay Spacecraft Scheduled For Jan. 29 Launch
NASA's newest Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, known as TDRS-K, has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for launch January 29. TDRS-K arrived aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems assembly facility in El Segundo, CA.
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