When NASA’s Artemis astronauts strap in and head toward the Moon, the rocket carrying them will rise on the shoulders of Huntsville.
“This is America’s rocket,” said David Beaman, acting program manager for the Space Launch System at Marshall Space Flight Center. “It’s not NASA’s rocket. This is America’s rocket. And with our international partners, it’s the world’s rocket.”
At the center of that effort is the Space Launch System, or SLS, the most powerful rocket ever built. It is managed in Huntsville and designed to carry humans deeper into space than ever before…