NASA’s Space Launch System Program Completes Critical Design Review

NASA’s new exploration class rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its critical design review and is the first heavy-lift vehicle capable of meeting the challenges of the agency’s journey to Mars. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built and, with the agency’s Orion spacecraft, will launch America into a new era of exploration to destinations beyond Earth’s orbit. The CDR provided a final look at the design and development of the integrated launch vehicle before full-scale fabrication begins.