NASA Uses $85 Million Windfall To Build Heavy-Lift SLS Upper Stage

Credit: NASA
NEW ORLEANS—An unrequested $85 million appropriation, with the promise of more to come from Capitol Hill, is allowing NASA to build a powerful new upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in time for its second flight. The U.S. space agency has baselined the Exploration Upper Stage...

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