NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Preliminary Design Review

An engineering board has cleared the first element of NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) for preliminary manufacturing, keeping the big new government-owned rocket on track for a first flight with the Orion multipurpose crew vehicle in 2017. In a preliminary design review Dec. 20 at...

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