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NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Block 1B Development
August 8, 2024 Artemis IV will be the first flight of NASA’s more powerful heavy-lift rocket—the Space Launch System Block 1B. However, Block 1B development efforts have encountered multiple issues including Boeing’s ineffective quality management and inexperienced workforce, continued cost increases and schedule delays, and the delayed establishment of a cost and schedule baseline.
Port Charlotte Man Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud Related To NASA’s Space Launch System
February 29, 2024 Orlando, FL – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Steven Lukens (54, Port Charlotte) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Lukens faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and has agreed to forfeit $271,024.35, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. The sentencing hearing is scheduled […]
NASA’s Transition of the Space Launch System to a Commercial Services Contract
October 12, 2023
NASA’s Management of the Space Launch System Booster and Engine Contracts
May 23, 2023 NASA is adapting heritage hardware from the Space Shuttle era, including solid rocket boosters and RS-25 rocket engines, to power the Artemis campaign’s Space Launch System rocket that will launch the Orion crew capsule to the Moon. This report examines whether NASA is meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals for its Booster […]
NASA’s Management of Space Launch System Program Costs and Contracts (IG-20-012)
March 10, 2020 The Office of Inspector General examined NASA’s management of the major Space Launch System contracts – core stage, upper stage, RS-25 engines, solid rocket boosters – to assess whether the programs are meeting cost, schedule, and performance goals.
NASA’s Management of the Space Launch System Stages Contract (IG-19-001)
October 10, 2018 The Office of Inspector General assessed NASA’s management of the Boeing contract developing the Space Launch System’s (SLS) Core Stages and Exploration Upper Stage, key parts of the new heavy-lift rocket.
Core Stage Testing for NASA’s Space Launch System (IG-14-009)
January 8, 2014
NASA’s Management of the Mobile Launcher 2 Project
August 27, 2024 NASA is developing a second mobile launcher (ML-2)—the ground structure used to assemble, transport, and launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule—to support larger variants of the SLS beginning with the Artemis IV mission. ML-2’s cost and schedule are not sustainable despite NASA’s efforts to improve project performance.
Construction of Test Stands 4693 and 4697 at Marshall Space Flight Center (IG-17-021)
May 17, 2017 The Office of Inspector General examined cost, schedule, and other issues related to construction of test stands in Huntsville, Alabama, that will be used to test fuel tanks for NASA’s new heavy lift rocket known as the Space Launch System.
Audit of the Spaceport Command and Control System (IG-16-015)
March 28, 2016 The Office of Inspector General examined NASA’s efforts to develop software that will launch the SLS rocket and Orion capsule from the Kennedy Space Center.