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Loading contentThe Space Launch System is NASA's super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed to carry the Orion spacecraft and crew under the Artemis program.
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The Space Launch System is NASA's super heavy-lift rocket for the Artemis program; its Block 1 configuration launched the uncrewed Artemis I around the Moon in 2022 and places roughly 95 tonnes into low Earth orbit.
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Artemis I was the uncrewed first flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft on a path around the Moon.
The Saturn V was a NASA super heavy-lift launch vehicle that carried the Apollo missions to the Moon and launched the Skylab space station.
NASA's super-heavy-lift family for the Artemis program, planned in progressively more capable Block 1, Block 1B, and Block 2 configurations.
Artemis is NASA's programme to return humans to the Moon and establish a sustainable lunar presence, in partnership with international and commercial partners.
A Kennedy Space Center pad used for Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle launches and rebuilt as a clean-pad for NASA's Space Launch System.
The SLS core stage, powered by four RS-25 engines (repurposed Space Shuttle main engines) burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
The pair of five-segment solid rocket boosters, derived from the Shuttle SRBs, that provide most of the SLS's liftoff thrust.
NASA's partially reusable crewed launch system — a winged orbiter with an external tank and two solid rocket boosters — that flew 135 missions building the ISS and servicing Hubble.
A reusable fuel-rich staged-combustion LH2/LOX engine developed for the Space Shuttle (as the SSME) and now expended on the SLS core stage; among the highest-efficiency hydrogen engines flown.
Russia's modular heavy-lift launcher built from common URM core boosters and burning kerosene/LOX, intended to replace the Proton.
A medium-lift rocket operated by Northrop Grumman that launched Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS; the flown Antares 230+ retired in 2023 after its Russian/Ukrainian first-stage supply was cut, pending the U.S.-built Antares 330.
Europe's first launcher, which established independent access to space and orbited the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet.
An uprated single-payload development of Ariane 1 with a more powerful third stage.
An Ariane variant adding two solid strap-on boosters and dual-payload capability for commercial satellites.
A highly successful and flexible Ariane variant with multiple booster configurations that dominated the commercial launch market in the 1990s.
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